Two Alabama Baptist churches sustained damage in the storms last night (March 15) — Calera Baptist from a tornado, and Mignon Baptist in Sylacauga from flooding.
Mignon Baptist was sheltering between 80 and 100 people in its basement-level fellowship hall when the water started pouring in, according to Pastor Jeremy Brown.
The church has many neighbors in a “vulnerable housing situation,” he said, so the church opened its doors to the community when weather warnings were announced for the state yesterday.
“We were hunkered down … and it was a slow, steady rain, nothing heavy,” Brown said. “We are located next to sort of a drainage ditch that filled up quickly, and once it started to run over it came into the parking lot and was rushing through the basement.”
The water outside was already waist deep in places, and inside he and others helped the crowd move through ankle-deep water to get to a safer place in the church’s main level. That included helping a woman with a walker get upstairs and keeping children calm.
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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.
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