 One of the grand challenges of our time is being resilient to climate change and this affects heritage properties as well as all types of infrastructure and buildings. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, I was thinking about how we could have an impact across a variety of communities in the Gulf Coast region and communities that were impacted and hurt badly by Hurricane Harvey. I considered sacred places historic houses of worship because their community icons and their places where people come together and most significantly their places that are already helping their communities in the aftermath of disasters. We were able to get a grant from the Texas Historical Commission with federal money that came through the Department of the Interior National Park Service that was part of the disaster relief program for the Hurricane Relief. The staff at the Texas Historical Commission had the foresight to realize that some of the money could be well spent on planning for the future. We were working specifically in three counties in Texas and the county preservation entities there, the Galveston Historical Foundation, Victoria Preservation and Preservation Houston, the key allies for us. The innovation of this project was in the approach, in the application of thinking and understanding resilience and the capacity of places to rebound and recover and applying it into historic preservation context working specifically with historic houses of worship. We did use available technology. We used thermal imaging cameras, tablets to record our information. We used drones to look at the roofs of buildings. We did soil analysis in the laboratory. We had engineers do finite element analysis to model the performance of the buildings in high wind. We wanted our information to be accessible and we wanted to design all resilience tools so that addressed issues of accessibility for people who are using the buildings. This capacity to survive and recover is very important for heritage buildings because it's our identity. This is who we are in rural communities and cities and people want to keep their heritage, keep their identity as they recover and rebound and come back from natural disasters. What we've set up our toolkit that's just sort of a resilience roadmap and then within it we explain how to do vulnerability assessments rapidly and with a focus on specific issues of heritage buildings and then we also have a scoresheet which is a resilient performance indicator. We in the field of historic preservation have a unique vantage point. We look at a window of time that goes back into the past sometimes centuries and we're trying to think ahead into the future to keep track of the decisions we're making now and how they're going to help people tomorrow and in generations to come.