Family Baptist Church in Tulare to continue Sunday service after fire earlier this week

TULARE, Calif. (KFSN) -- 'Walking done the chaos' is however Samuel Gray, the elder pastor astatine Family Baptist Church successful Tulare, describes this week, aft the religion caught occurrence connected Monday morning, destroying the chapel and portion of their offices that person been determination since 1989.

"Through it we've seen God's hand, we person seen his graces, we person seen his preparations arsenic we spell done this. From a Monday greeting daze to present it has conscionable been a changeless movement," explains Gray.

Moving guardant with hope, Gray has seen the community, different churches and the California Southern Baptist Disaster Relief squad person travel unneurotic to assistance with basal needs.

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In the meantime, the latest work was held outdoors successful the parking lot, keeping the tone of their ngo live and helping parishioners clasp connected to anticipation done prayer.

"It's encouraging, and besides it's conscionable a reminder that God is successful control," says Gray. "The religion is the radical and not the building. While the gathering has burned, the religion has not, truthful we are conscionable looking forward."

Meanwhile, the probe by the Tulare City Fire Department continues.

It hopes to person a completed study of the origin of the occurrence wrong the adjacent mates of weeks.

"We are reasonably assured that this was not an intentionally acceptable occurrence and we bash judge that the occurrence originated wrong of the church," explains Fire Marshall, Ryan Leonardo, with the City of Tulare.

The religion volition acceptable up a impermanent structure for Sunday services.

They volition person a bilingual work connected Sunday astatine 11 o'clock, successful English and successful Spanish.

The assemblage is invited to come.

For much information, you tin sojourn their website here.