On Saturday evening, Pastor Kevin Taylor and his wife had just arrived at Harvest of Praise Ministry Church in Ellis County, Texas, thinking he would just run quickly inside to grab something, when the pastor realized that a tornado was headed his way.
“As quick as I could get in the door…the doors started blowing,” Taylor told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. “I was in the very front of the building and tried to run down the hallway to get to safety.”
Suddenly, the building collapsed, and “everything went black.”
Although Taylor had been covered in twisted metal and sheetrock, he was miraculously unharmed, and his thoughts turned quickly to his wife, who was outside, still in their pickup truck.
“I started yelling for her to see where she was,” he said.
After several minutes passed, Taylor’s wife still had not answered, and it was not until he escaped from the church that he discovered that she, too, had survived the tornado unharmed in their truck.
“The doors were open, the back window blew out,” he said. “The car wasn’t parked that close to the building, (wind) moved it over.”
They both attribute the fact that they were able to walk away from the scene to nothing short of a miracle.
“God got us through, somehow,” he said.
In the meantime, he is focused on moving forward to rebuild the church, and his congregation is temporarily meeting in a few churches in the area that have offered them the use of their facilities.