Your Community with Kay - Grace Baptist Anniversary One Year Anniversary Since Tornado

Kay talks to the head of Grace Baptist Academy to mark the one year anniversary of the Easter Tornado and their rebuild since then.

Patrick core holly is will you i could be with you thank you for joining us this evening matthew a little bit back one year ago nation ... well we certainly woke up to exactly what you just said one word devastation all across that east brainerd neighborhood while it was terrible and i we see pictures in the middle of the night from your new station and others in the joy it was it was pretty difficult to process but the we began to realize ver quickly that there was an opportunity here in the midst of the storm ... absolutely now and then china is also there a lot of the buildings were destroyed what were your thoughts and want their on the campus next morning where exactly basically the entire campus was destroyed and so the fields of her litter with that debris from all over the buildings 15 of the 17 buildings were in such disrepair that they were deemed unrepairable that we could not restore the severity taking the ground and so i basically one small resident are that we use for missionaries on on furlough hours was able to be restored and our children center is actually now completely restored i was able to be remodeled and it is a beautiful new facility are sitting there on 7050 child wrote serving children from infants are right up through four years old and and that's all that was left by way of actual construction on the campus ... now i know that you're in the rebuilding process right now is a little that i know you're not in some of the elite eight yes we've got the site work that's been going on for a couple of weeks now and it is incredible to see the earth moving all these big pieces of equipment out there by doing the underground infrastructure setting up for the actual building construction which should begin the off-season structures going up are starting their foundations course in jus a month or two and of course roland keyboard act need something like that coming up out of the ground that college had a select rate is for what i cannot believe it in one year ago ... thank you very much thanks for is reflecting with us today and i you're thinking back to all we've experienced it started with you in that sense with tha tornado in and the goddess the good work will be moving forward again for joining us if you want some more information on the interview is our website