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Hawaiians Thankful: No Deaths or Serious Injuries from Powerful Quakes
Hawaii Baptists are expressing thanks that no deaths or serious injuries were reported when a 6.7-magnitude earthquake shook the island chain around 7 a.m. local time Sunday, Oct. 15.
Bob Duffer, director of missions for the Neighbor Islands Baptist Associations of Hawaii, told Baptist Press that First Baptist Church of Waimea in Kamuela on the Big Island sustained some water damage from broken pipes and some broken windows. At the parsonage there, a chimney fell and caused some structural damage.
Waikoloa Baptist Church, also on the Big Island, was closest to the epicenter of the earthquake, and the church’s pastor, Emerson Wiles, said people were grateful to be recovering material possessions rather than lost lives.
“Surprisingly, there’s very little damage in our entire village,†Wiles told BP.
Two Baptist churches that sustained damage will need help in making repairs.
Veryl Henderson, executive director of the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention, said the story emerging from Hawaii in the aftermath of the earthquake is one of “good fortune†as God protected people.
“I think our churches are doing a lot of reflection and discovering that we need to be better prepared because if we’re going to be the caregivers for our community we need to have ourselves ready to serve,†Henderson told BP. “W discovered we weren’t ready.â€Â
Hawaii Baptists are expressing thanks that no deaths or serious injuries were reported when a 6.7-magnitude earthquake shook the island chain around 7 a.m. local time Sunday, Oct. 15.
Bob Duffer, director of missions for the Neighbor Islands Baptist Associations of Hawaii, told Baptist Press that First Baptist Church of Waimea in Kamuela on the Big Island sustained some water damage from broken pipes and some broken windows. At the parsonage there, a chimney fell and caused some structural damage.
Waikoloa Baptist Church, also on the Big Island, was closest to the epicenter of the earthquake, and the church’s pastor, Emerson Wiles, said people were grateful to be recovering material possessions rather than lost lives.
“Surprisingly, there’s very little damage in our entire village,†Wiles told BP.
Two Baptist churches that sustained damage will need help in making repairs.
Veryl Henderson, executive director of the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention, said the story emerging from Hawaii in the aftermath of the earthquake is one of “good fortune†as God protected people.
“I think our churches are doing a lot of reflection and discovering that we need to be better prepared because if we’re going to be the caregivers for our community we need to have ourselves ready to serve,†Henderson told BP. “W discovered we weren’t ready.â€Â