Nine area churches have joined together to host a Christmas musical celebration Saturday to benefit the Bastrop County Long-Term Recovery Team.

The show, "A Joyous Christmas," will feature new and old classics performed by an 80-person choir, bells, solo performances and a special video slideshow that focuses on disaster recovery in Bastrop County.

"We just decided that we want to do something to bring Bastrop together," event director Joyce Lukfrofka said. "We felt like there was a need to do that since Bastrop went through the two fires, then the floods."

Lukrofka, a member of the First Assembly of God, was inspired after watching a video of a piano concert in Florida that her sister sent to her earlier this year. She wanted to put on a similar production in Bastrop for the holidays and began knocking on church doors to see who would participate. Nine congregations agreed and began to organize over the summer.

Many of the churches that are participating have been affected by recent disasters, including Macedonia First Baptist Church, which flooded twice on Memorial Day 2015 and 2016, and Faith Impact Fellowship, whose original church burned in the 2011 Complex Fire.

The Long-Term Recovery Team was an obvious recipient for donations, Lukrofka said.

"Anytime we can help out, we try to get involved," Faith Impact Pastor Mike Vega said.

Vega was pastor of Faith Impact long before it was known by that name. When fire swept through Bastrop County in 2011, it was the Word of Life Church, which burned in the onslaught. In the weeks that followed, the congregation met out of a 40-by-60-foot tent on its property, surrounded by lumber, ash and scorched trees. Parishioners worshipped out of several other buildings until finally building a new church, which was renamed Faith Impact.

"It is part of our history. It is part of what we have had to go through," Vega said. "You live through it and you step out and become part of the solution."

For Vega, participating in the Christmas program was a "no brainer."

"That’s what we do," he said.

His congregation will work security at Saturday’s event, scheduled to take place at the Jerry Fay Wilhelm Center for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m.

Admission to the concert is free, but donations are encouraged.

All proceeds will help the recovery team finish remaining home repairs from the 2016 Memorial Day weekend flood. Executive Director Sheila Lowe estimates they have about $100,000 of work to complete, half of that to cover the costs uninsured and underinsured homeowners weren’t able to pay for repairs.

All other donations will help the organization fulfill its future mission — to make Bastrop County a self-sufficient entity, able to respond to and recover from disasters, Lowe said.