A church in Hughson wants to know how and why sewer water and cement were mistakenly pumped into its property while pipework was being done at a nearby creamery. Students, staff and churchgoers at Hughson Christian School and Hughson Church of Christ have been without working restrooms for roughly two months now, and a minister and his family living on-site were forced out of their home. A toilet, bathtub, and several areas were overflowing with cement inside the home of minister Nathan House and his wife Dara. Across the parking lot at the church, walls and floors were taken apart after a classroom and the baptistery was flooded with sewer water. "It looked like gray lava had come out of everything," Sheila Parnell, the Hughson Christian School principal, said. Parnell said this all happened just before the holidays. “Some of our students were practicing for our upcoming Christmas program and one of the students heard running water,” Parnell said. Parnell says work was being done by a construction company at a nearby creamery at that time. “The construction company had been outside, and they were pumping foamy cement into the old creamery pipes to fill them, and it just kept going and going and going, like it wasn’t filling; it was going out somewhere else,” Parnell said. She said the company then came out to the property to find out where the cement was going. “They contacted the minister in the house, and he asked them to look to see if there was anything going on,” Parnell said. “They dug some holes to see if there were any sewer lines. We weren’t aware of and found out that it was actually coming out of the minister’s house. ” KCRA 3 reached out to the company’s attorney but has not yet received a response. Church services have since been reduced to a small room. Students, staff, and churchgoers are left using portable restrooms provided by the city. But parents like Kerry Crawford, whose daughter attends the school, say it’s been difficult for their kids. “There was a couple times in the first few weeks there where she was having her grandma pick her up to take her home to go use the restroom,” Crawford said. Parnell says the church has paid more than $60,000 out of pocket and used donations given by community members to pay for some of the cleanup and to pay for temporary housing for the minister’s family. But funds are almost drained, Parnell said. Now they are trying to determine who should be responsible for the costs of repair. The minister and his family say they are in contact with an attorney to find a solution. In a statement to KCRA 3, city manager Mary Mayhew said the city is in communication with the family and all agencies involved to determine the next steps. Mayhew adds that the city worked directly with the contractor to resolve this issue from the beginning and that a claim was turned over to their insurance company. "Unfortunately, we are not seeing the results that we need to see as far as resolving these issues and getting the residents back into their home and church as swiftly as possible," Mayhew said. "As the insurance is not moving on these claims, the city is looking at all legal options available to resolve this. ".