by Staff, posted Friday, March 02, 2007 (17 years ago)
REVISED March 3 with disaster relief photo
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| Surveying the deadly destruction at Enterprise High School in Alabama are Rick Lance, executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, and disaster relief leaders Tommy Puckett and Larry Murphy, a member or Hillcrest Baptist Church adjacent to the school. Photo by Doug Rogers/Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions
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ENTERPRISE, Ala. (BP)--A tornado destroyed a high school in Enterprise, Ala., March 1, killing at least eight students in a string of deadly tornadoes that left a total of 20 people dead in Missouri, Alabama and Georgia.
Rick Lance, executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, is among the disaster relief volunteers in Enterprise, having traveled there with a team from his church, Vaughn Forest Baptist in Montgomery.
Some of the eight students killed at the high school were members of local Baptist churches, including the grandson of Joel Jackson, former director of missions for the Coffee Baptist Association, a spokeswoman for the association told The Alabama Baptist newsjournal March 2.
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| Rescue workers search for victims inside Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Ala., after a tornado ripped through the city Thursday afternoon. Eight students trapped under the rubble were killed. Photo by Danny Tindell/Dothan Eagle
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Lance Hogan, pastor of First Baptist Church in Enterprise, told The Alabama Baptist that about 80 people took shelter at the church overnight. “We have had people staying here whose children were killed,” Hogan said. “We ask for prayers for these families,” he said, noting that he had seen an outpouring of support from church members who helped pull people from the school rubble.
Rick Lance noted that Hogan had not gone home but had worked throughout the night tending to various needs ... Read More
