It was a Sunday service people of Second Baptist Church Ranger will never forget.
"January 1993, I started coming…He was an EMT at the time," she recalled. "And he got a call and had to quit playing the piano and just got up and walked out and I’m sitting there going, I don’t know anybody."They were married at the church and their children were baptized there. Decades of joyful memories. Now, the church building is a total loss following the Eastland complex wildfires, which continue to burn.
Berry, who’s legally blind, might not visualize the building the way others do, but he senses the inside of it in other ways. At the same time, those who attend church there say that’s not keeping them from sharing a very important message. The church service was outside Sunday, and the painful reminder of their old church building was across the street.But they know their church is more than a building.