{"id":1126753,"date":"2021-12-16T22:14:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1126753"},"modified":"2021-12-16T22:14:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:14:34","slug":"evangelical-nonprofits-assist-tornado-survivors-in-aftermath-of-devastation-as-faith-endures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evangelical-nonprofits-assist-tornado-survivors-in-aftermath-of-devastation-as-faith-endures\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelical Nonprofits Assist Tornado Survivors in Aftermath of Devastation as Faith Endures"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fevangelical-nonprofits-assist-tornado-survivors-in-aftermath-of-devastation-as-faith-endures%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1126753&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DM7_3213-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Nonprofit evangelical organizations are answering the call to help tornado survivors in the aftermath of the devastation, as faith endures in affected communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian Broadcasting Network\u2019s (CBN) Operation Blessing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ob.org\/tornadoes-in-midwest\/\">brought<\/a> essential supplies to First Baptist Church in Dawson Springs, Kentucky, after assisting survivors in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re providing food items, comfort items for warmth, water, Home Depot buckets so that they can begin the process of restoring their lives to some sort of normalcy,\u201d Operation Blessing\u2019s Toby Swager <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2021\/december\/powerful-signs-of-faith-and-hope-emerge-for-tornado-survivors-operation-blessing-rushes-aid-to-region\">said<\/a>, per CBN.<\/p>\n<p>The Franklin Graham-led Samaritan\u2019s Purse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/our-ministry\/about-us\/\">deployed<\/a> several disaster response units, including tractor-trailers filled with supplies, to tornado-hit areas, including Mayfield and Bowling Green, Kentucky, and northeast Arkansas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SamaritansPurse\/posts\/10158173463371809\" data-width=\"640\" readability=\"25.265363128492\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/274499941808\/posts\/10158173463371809\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" readability=\"7.5418994413408\">\n<p>A swarm of deadly nighttime tornadoes tore through six states last night into this morning. Scores are reported dead\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/274499941808\">Samaritan&#8217;s Purse<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/274499941808\/posts\/10158173463371809\/\">Saturday, December 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Assistance was not limited to evangelical nonprofits. On his own volition, a man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/weather\/2021\/12\/13\/good-samaritan-brings-grill-food-water-to-tornado-hit-mayfield-ky\/\">named<\/a> Jim Finch drove to Mayfield with a grill, food, and water and began cooking for victims in the middle of the wreckage, Breitbart News reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4384236453202\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This man drove half an hour with a grill and a truckload of food and parked right in the middle of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mayfield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mayfield<\/a>, Kentucky. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xrVbrMdJ9S\">pic.twitter.com\/xrVbrMdJ9S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Victor Ordo\u00f1ez (@TheOrdonezTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOrdonezTimes\/status\/1470140177175781376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Americans are stepping up to assist their fellow citizens, signs of faith have endured through immense struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Baize of Bremen, Kentucky, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crisisresponse\/427626965497604\/post\/428229388770695\">sat<\/a> inside his roofless home and played a worship song on the piano in a video that has gone viral and inspired many.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whitney.brown.18\/posts\/10223239151425924\" data-width=\"640\" readability=\"27.134831460674\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/1198080075\/posts\/10223239151425924\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" readability=\"10.078651685393\">\n<p>I have been overwhelmed by the love my family has been shown today. We are all safe, thank God. My brother, Jordan, has\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whitney.brown.18\">Whitney Brown<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/1198080075\/posts\/10223239151425924\/\">Saturday, December 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jordan\u2019s sister Whitney Brown was packing up salvageable possessions in one of the home\u2019s bedrooms when she heard Jordan playing \u201cThere\u2019s Something About That Name,\u201d by Bill and Gloria Gaither. The piano was missing keys and had water damage, but that did not stop Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>He told CBN that he and his family survived the storm by sheltering in the basement and using a mattress for protection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to face this storm or any other without walking with Christ,\u201d Baize told CBN. \u201cIn those trying times and even in the good times, that\u2019s where I want to be found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played that song for me, to get a quiet moment by myself,\u201d he added. \u201cI guess it\u2019s brought a lot of peace to folks that are going through a lot of difficult situations right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Mayfield, a church was damaged. Pieces of the roof are missing, windows were destroyed, and glass covers the church floor, according to CBN.&nbsp; What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=okjEGTjTt_4\">endures<\/a> is a giant cross on the front of an education building across the street, one parishioner told the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cbnnews\/posts\/10166687153995393\" data-width=\"640\" readability=\"26.146341463415\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/140647865392\/posts\/10166687153995393\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" readability=\"7.8048780487805\">\n<p>&#8216;Everything Else Is Gone. The Cross Still Stands&#8217;: Kentucky Church&#8217;s Cross Reminds Survivors That God Is With Us<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/140647865392\">CBN News<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/140647865392\/posts\/10166687153995393\/\">Wednesday, December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to me that in the education building across the street, that cross that we put up in the window is still there, and the window is gone,\u201d said parishioner Barry Fowler. \u201cEverything else is gone. The cross still stands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span>Watch Below:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hit by a tornado, a Kentucky church still stands\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/okjEGTjTt_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonprofit evangelical organizations are answering the call to help tornado survivors in the aftermath of the devastation, as faith endures in affected communities. 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