{"id":542786,"date":"2010-04-25T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/04\/25\/mississippi-church-devastated-by-tornado\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T15:25:53","slug":"mississippi-church-devastated-by-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542786","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Church Devastated by Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &#8220;We don&#8217;t need a building to be a church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dale Thrasher was the only one inside that church when the tornado hit yesterday. He dove under the Communion table and says &#8220;God wrapped him arms around me. &#8221; When the storm had passed, he looked up and saw the sky. He didn&#8217;t have a scratch on him. <\/p>\n<p>Today Thrasher talked to his fellow church members and told them they will build back again, bigger and better. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/04\/l_2048_1536_4B5B5760-F3A1-439A-B328-0F4EEE1BFFBE.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/04\/l_2048_1536_4B5B5760-F3A1-439A-B328-0F4EEE1BFFBE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/04\/l_2048_1536_807F9E71-61F9-4206-9C55-E2034F4554DE.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/04\/l_2048_1536_807F9E71-61F9-4206-9C55-E2034F4554DE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/04\/l_2048_1536_CA387E98-8EA9-4CC4-B15A-668823121FCA.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/04\/l_2048_1536_CA387E98-8EA9-4CC4-B15A-668823121FCA.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}