Many Christians in the areas hit hardest by the violent Tennessee tornadoes did what they always do on Sunday mornings. They went to church.
Rev. Jacques Boyd preached under a big white tent in North Nashville as Mount Bethel Missionary Baptist Church's badly damaged house of worship and Christian center stood behind him. The church dubbed it"worship in the rubble.
Even contractors who were busily trying to replace downed power lines paused and took off their hard hats as Boyd led the congregation in prayer on the sunny, windy morning.Churches offer message of hope to survivors Others are helped when churches keep going, said Jamie D. Aten, founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College.
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