A tornado destroyed the Hillside Baptist Church but today its members gathered next to the rubble and gave thanks to God. It was a two story building but you wouldn’t know it by looking at it. Now it is just a pile of wood and concrete and steel. Before they started, members picked through the wreckage to find church books so they could hold their service. I heard one woman say “We don’t need a building to be a church.”
Dale Thrasher was the only one inside that church when the tornado hit yesterday. He dove under the Communion table and says “God wrapped him arms around me. ” When the storm had passed, he looked up and saw the sky. He didn’t have a scratch on him.
Today Thrasher talked to his fellow church members and told them they will build back again, bigger and better.
