Are there any Pastors from a Baptst church who are members here?

@masterofyou Yes.

When I was six, and my siblings were 2,8, and 10, we lived in Baltimore and Dad was pastoring a church.

There was a massive snowstorm in the city and the town slid to a halt. It took about three weeks for the abandoned cars to be cleared, and because Baltimore considered itself “a southern city,” snow removal experience was almost nil. Buildings were not built to carry the weight of a yard of snow on the roofs. They collapsed. The church roof collapsed too.

My three uncles, Dad’s brothers, came as soon as they could get in to the city, and they started by clearing the debris. All four of them were carpenters . One of them fell off the roof and his back was so damaged, he stayed in hospital and then with us until he was healed enough to travel. The church was rebuilt and a steeple added. All the congregation had to pay for were the materials.

They started to argue about the loan for the materials and eventually, about ways to pay it off. They proposed the church start to host bingo games in the basement. Dad said, “No.” and talked to them about Jesus clearing the temples of money changers.

Matthew 21:12-13
King James Version
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Dad lost the fight, and when he came home, defeated, he told our mother they would start packing the next day. She had four kids depending on her, and as any mother would, she asked “Where will we go?”

Dad was not known for declarative speech and answered, “God will provide.” We left three days after the bingo decision, and God DID provide.

It wasn’t a mansion. It was the basement of an unfinished house. But it was survival. When we climbed out of our warm beds in the morning, we ran to the wood stove to change for school. We thought it was a great adventure. Dad did carpentry and looked for new churches looking for ministers.

He stood on principles. It is a valuable life lesson.

@Mamapolo2016 Jesus was a radical and lad havic and threw them out of the temple and he should have because he's God in the flesh its a shame that people are sometimes too pious... Sunday day Christians and don't live it 24/7 .... i love that story do you remember the year of that storm i was born 1945 so i remember some of those storms

@masterofyou Had to be mid fifties. Iwas born in 1951.

Did a little checking, it was probably 1958.

I read comments about kids couldn’t go outside because the snow was too deep and military tanks used to pound down the snow in the roads.

It was a doozy.