Although their churches were mostly destroyed by a tornado this month that decimated their city, and rubble remained strewn around them, dozens of worshippers from two churches in Mayfield, Kentucky, gathered Friday during a Christmas Eve service.
Christmas congregants in tornado-ravaged Kentucky say goodbye to their churches, vow to rebuild
, and rubble remained strewn around them, dozens of worshippers from two churches in Mayfield, Kentucky, gathered Friday during a Christmas Eve service.“We were saying farewell to these buildings. Our ministries will live in other locations,” Pastor Milton West, senior minister at the First Christian Church, told NBC News on Saturday. “We believe that the church is not the building, the church is the people that worship there.
that as the twister was bearing down on the city, their supervisors warned they could be fired if they tried to flee.Kentucky’s state of emergency and ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding and tornadoes.
Although most of First Christian Church was damaged beyond repair, West on Saturday chose to highlight what the faithful see as Divine Intervention: The church’s communion table, which he believed dated back to 1906 when the church opened, went relatively unscathed. Beth Scarbrough, a fourth-generation member of First Christian, named in rapid succession the family milestones celebrated at the church: her wedding, the weddings of her grandparents, parents and sister, and the baptisms of all her children.
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