The Safe Room She Didn't Know Was There
In 2011, a massive EF5 tornado carved through Joplin, Missouri, leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. Bethany Stover clutched her newborn son in a hallway closet...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab.
In 2011, a massive EF5 tornado carved through Joplin, Missouri, leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. Bethany Stover clutched her newborn son in a hallway closet while the walls of her house peeled away like paper. She was certain they would die. But when the roaring stopped and she opened her eyes, the closet stood — the only structure intact on her entire block.…
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