Awesome testimony! Glory to God in the Highest!
Baptist Press
By Scott Barkley, posted February 27, 2025 in Churches and Ministry
MEADVILLE, Miss. (BP) – It’s not uncommon for Rick Strawbridge to get alerts for bad weather. Typically, he and his wife, Dianne, stay home and pray through it. On Dec. 28, though, he felt they should leave their home and seek shelter at their church, O’Zion Baptist, about a quarter-mile away.
It would lead to an experience the couple will never forget, and Strawbridge wants to keep telling others about.
“God put us in the eye of the storm,” he told Baptist Press.
They had barely been there a minute. Dianne was sitting on one of the back pews and Rick opened the front doors to check outside. That’s when he saw it.
“Headin’ right at us,” he said. “We went to the women’s bathroom on the other end of the sanctuary and beside the baptistry.”
They huddled in the small room, about 6 feet by 6 feet, and heard the winds ripping the building apart.
“Words can’t describe how loud it was,” said Strawbridge, a deacon at the church since 2002. “And just as soon as it hit, it was gone. I looked up and saw clear sky. Everything – and I mean everything – was gone except that little room we were in.”
Wind and debris had filled the air, but fear was nowhere to be found, he said. More Here
