JOPLIN, MO: Reformed Episcopal Church Wiped Out in Tornado Alley
JOPLIN, MO: Reformed Episcopal Church Wiped Out in Tornado Alley
Special Report
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
May 26, 2011
All they salvaged were two candlesticks and a processional cross from the wreckage of their church, but that is not the end of the road for this small but determined Reformed Episcopal Church in Joplin, after multiple tornadoes ripped through the city killing more than 123 men, women and children. Another 233 are officially still missing.
For REC Bishop Sam Seamans it was a devastation he thought he would never live to see. "I had never understood what an EF5 tornado could do until I saw this. I have seen tornadoes before but not like this. It is a tragedy beyond comprehension," he told VOL by phone.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Special Report
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
May 26, 2011
All they salvaged were two candlesticks and a processional cross from the wreckage of their church, but that is not the end of the road for this small but determined Reformed Episcopal Church in Joplin, after multiple tornadoes ripped through the city killing more than 123 men, women and children. Another 233 are officially still missing.For REC Bishop Sam Seamans it was a devastation he thought he would never live to see. "I had never understood what an EF5 tornado could do until I saw this. I have seen tornadoes before but not like this. It is a tragedy beyond comprehension," he told VOL by phone.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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