A series of storms has devastated several states with tornadoes, heavy rain and flooding. In the aftermath, members of a Kentucky church are thanking God no one was hurt when a powerful twister destroyed their main sanctuary at a time when the building would have been full of people.
Amid the incredible destruction, the believers at Christ Community Church are grateful to God. That’s because, in an unprecedented move, the building sat empty during its usual Wednesday night prayer service.
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It was April 2nd, and the forecast over Paducah, Kentucky, didn’t look good. In that moment, Pastor Tim Turner felt compelled to do something he’d never done before.
“We canceled that night because of the storms,” he recalls. “It is the first time in my 35 years of pastoring that we’ve ever done that.”
All signs point to divine intervention. “We just feel like that was an act of God,” Turner tells CBN News.” If you look at all these blocks, it was a block wall, 18 feet high, and it all fell, and the roof caved in to and I doubt there would’ve been any survivors. So we’re not mourning today, we’re praising God,” he says.
Church member Lindsay Stanley says she and her husband rarely miss Wednesday night service.
“But we had a feeling like we should just stay home. And then Pastor Tim actually decided to cancel services and we never canceled services,” she says.
“Actually, when we got the call that the church was gone, we were in the closet because the tornado had literally just gone past over our house… It was me, my husband and our two daughters, literally in the closet with helmets on and everything. It was that like this thing’s coming,” Stanley recalls.
The tornado hit just as the church had completed five years of renovation on their new sanctuary, wiping out thousands of dollars in new cameras, instruments and lighting equipment.
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