Tornado-damaged church in Oklahoma rebuilds
December 4, 2016
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — While on the way to church last March, pastor J. Malcolm Phipps Jr. saw no clues that a storm was brewing.
The sun was out. Birds were singing.
"You wouldn't have known anything was wrong," he said.
But the sky got dark, the wind picked up and rain began pouring during the praise and worship portion of a prayer meeting.
"Right as we finished up the prayer time, the sirens went off and dust started coming down from the ceiling," Phipps said.
A tornado was bearing down on north Tulsa. Bethel Seventh-Day Adventist Church was in the path, according to the Tulsa World (http...
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