To truly have an inkling in understanding the trauma that the people experienced on December 10, 2021, I had our participating youth groups walk through the downtown area of Mayfield, KY. Yes, you can see the devestation from pictures and hear the stories from the victims, but there is something invaluably different when walking through the debris of a natural disaster. Whether it’s touching the broken bricks from a destroyed home, smelling the left over scents from the obliterated candle factory, or tasting the lingering dust that is still present in the air after seven months of clean up – the walk itself is unreal in perspective; it’s almost as if you are walking on Holy Ground itself because you know that God is present in resurrecting this community. Below is an except from a participant’s response…
“The destruction here is unreal and unimaginable that pictures just can’t seem to capture. Even after seven months of clean up, it looks and feels like the tornado just came through yesterday. There is an eerie quietness within the downtown area that is filled with the balance of sadness in the brokeness and the hope in beauty from ashes.”
Prayer requests:
1. Clean up continues to happen even though the news of the destruction has faded and resources are dwindling.
2. Revival of hope surges throughout the county in the midst of devastation, hopelessness, anger, and appreciation.
3. God will continue to call His people to serve for many years to come.
