When the Singing Came Back to Joplin
On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado carved a mile-wide path through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. St. Mary's...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 126.
On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado carved a mile-wide path through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. St. Mary's Catholic Church lost its roof. College Heights Christian Church was gutted to the studs. For weeks, the only sounds were chainsaws and weeping. But then something quiet began to happen. Volunteers from every denomination — Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Lutheran — showed up with work gloves and casserole dishes.…
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