Rend Your Hearts (29 of 66)
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
Joel
One way to understand the Bible better is by putting yourself into the story that's being told. When you read 2 Timothy, you sit with Paul in a dungeon. In Exodus, you're a Hebrew slave making bricks. In Joshua, you're a soldier marching around Jericho. In Esther, you are a queen who speaks up for her people.
Participating in an event sears that memory in your mind. My hometown is 23 miles southwest of Joplin, Missouri. My church camp, Camp Cyokamo, is located just north of Joplin. One of my brothers took piano lessons in Joplin every week. My sports teams played football, baseball, basketball and ran track in Joplin. Joplin is the home of Ozark Bible College, the Joplin Airport, Missouri Southern State University and St. John's Hospital.
The St. John's Hospital I knew no longer exists. On May 22, 2011, an F-5 tornado destroyed St. John's Hospital. It was one mile wide, it lasted 38 minutes and it covered two counties. 162 people were killed, 1,150 were injured and 16,656 homes were destroyed. The damage exceeded $2.95 billion!
When Kris Howell took 60 of our high school kids west to work on an Indian Reservation, they spent the first night in Joplin. My adopted-mother and sister fed them at church, and my dad took them to the tornado memorial located across the street from old St. John's Hospital.
What they didn't know is that they passed the Greenbriar Nursing Home where my birth-mother was residing. They couldn't have known because it's gone. Mom was one of 106 residents who lived there. Greenbriar suffered eleven fatalities, all men, and that nursing home was annihilated. My mother was fortunate to survive with minor injuries.
We remember catastrophic events like tornados and hurricanes, or the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, or the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, or Pearl Harbor, or 9-11.
History-making-events raise all ...
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
Joel
One way to understand the Bible better is by putting yourself into the story that's being told. When you read 2 Timothy, you sit with Paul in a dungeon. In Exodus, you're a Hebrew slave making bricks. In Joshua, you're a soldier marching around Jericho. In Esther, you are a queen who speaks up for her people.
Participating in an event sears that memory in your mind. My hometown is 23 miles southwest of Joplin, Missouri. My church camp, Camp Cyokamo, is located just north of Joplin. One of my brothers took piano lessons in Joplin every week. My sports teams played football, baseball, basketball and ran track in Joplin. Joplin is the home of Ozark Bible College, the Joplin Airport, Missouri Southern State University and St. John's Hospital.
The St. John's Hospital I knew no longer exists. On May 22, 2011, an F-5 tornado destroyed St. John's Hospital. It was one mile wide, it lasted 38 minutes and it covered two counties. 162 people were killed, 1,150 were injured and 16,656 homes were destroyed. The damage exceeded $2.95 billion!
When Kris Howell took 60 of our high school kids west to work on an Indian Reservation, they spent the first night in Joplin. My adopted-mother and sister fed them at church, and my dad took them to the tornado memorial located across the street from old St. John's Hospital.
What they didn't know is that they passed the Greenbriar Nursing Home where my birth-mother was residing. They couldn't have known because it's gone. Mom was one of 106 residents who lived there. Greenbriar suffered eleven fatalities, all men, and that nursing home was annihilated. My mother was fortunate to survive with minor injuries.
We remember catastrophic events like tornados and hurricanes, or the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, or the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, or Pearl Harbor, or 9-11.
History-making-events raise all ...
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