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Litton, Wright Visit Storm Ravaged Town, See Southern Baptist Cooperation ‘At Its Best’ BY BRANDON PORTER
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outhern Baptist leaders prayed with pastors and residents as they recovered from the deadly line of storms that stretched across the Midwest and South in December, leaving more than seventy-five fatalities. According to the National Weather Service, at least forty-one tornadoes with winds of up to 190 mph cut a two hundred-mile path across Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee on December 10 and 11.
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“It was shocking to see the devastation,” said Bryant Wright, Send Relief president. “I can’t imagine what those folks experienced by going to bed one night and having the storms pounce on them.” Jamie Ward, co-lead pastor at Hillvue Heights Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, took Wright, Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton, and Sam Porter, national director
