The Wall That Rose in Millbrook
In 2019, a tornado carved a quarter-mile scar through Millbrook, Alabama, peeling roofs off homes and snapping a century-old oak across the entrance of Millbrook...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Nehemiah 4:6.
In 2019, a tornado carved a quarter-mile scar through Millbrook, Alabama, peeling roofs off homes and snapping a century-old oak across the entrance of Millbrook Baptist Church. Insurance adjusters arrived with clipboards and long timelines. But before the paperwork cleared, something else happened. Carl Jessup, a seventy-two-year-old retired mason, showed up at dawn with his trowel and a wheelbarrow of mortar.…
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