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‘Catastrophic’ flooding in Tennessee: 21 dead, 20 missing

The family of six woke Saturday to floods bursting into their new duplex, relatives said. The water outside was up to their chests. Soon it tore them apart.
Danielle Hall, 25, was swept to a tree, where she clung for hours, waiting to be rescued, family members said. Her partner, Matt Rigney, tried to grab their four children, but a current pulled them away.
Two of the young children resurfaced unscathed, said their grandparents, who heard the story later. But Hall and Rigney’s 7-month-old twins never came up.
They are among 21 known victims of the historic rain and flash flooding that swept central Tennessee on Saturday, devastating the small city of Waverly, about 60 miles west of Nashville. Receding waters left behind wrecked homes, flipped cars and a list of about 20 people whose whereabouts remained unknown. Rescuers were still searching for the missing as nightfall approached Sunday.
“It is a devastating picture of loss and heartache,” Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) said during an afternoon news conference.
In the early hours of the disaster, families desperate for answers filled Facebook groups and comment chains with the names of their missing loved ones. Authorities circulated the names of about 45 people feared missing, trimming it after some were found safe. Amid a widespread loss of power and cellphone service, “folks were just having trouble getting a hold of their loved ones,” Waverly Chief of Public Safety Grant Gillespie said.
The extreme weather hobbled communication and movement, making it difficult for first responders to reach people who needed help. Authorities said the death toll might have been higher if not for the efforts of community members who made rescues on their own.
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) called the torrential rain and flooding “catastrophic.” One observation site recorded 17 inches of rain in 24 hours, blowing past the state’s nearly 14-inch record set in 1982, a meteorologist said. A flash flood watch issued Friday quickly became a “flash flood emergency” Saturday as some people yelled for help from their rooftops while others found themselves trapped in vehicles.
Flash flood emergency alerts are saved for “the most dire circumstances,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Krissy Hurley, who said Sunday that Waverly had been “pretty much underwater.” “Yesterday was definitely one of them.”
The destruction unfolded as other extreme weather events around the country stoke concerns that the changing climate is making natural disasters more frequent and more intense. The Northeast braced for an unrelated pummeling from Tropical Storm Henri, which was downgraded to a depression Sunday night after it made landfall; the West is battling wildfires; and flooding in North Carolina recently left several people dead. Although Hurley could not say whether climate change played a role in the devastation in Tennessee, she said the area has been battered by three fearsome floods in less than a year. The last one, in March, was also deadly.
“This is unusual,” she said, calling the weekend’s rains more reminiscent of a hurricane on the coast than a flash flood in central Tennessee. A thunderstorm kept hitting the same spots, she said, and “when you get that amount of rainfall in a short amount of time, you are going to have devastating consequences.”
Chris Davis, the sheriff in hard-hit Humphreys County, offered a mix of sorrow and resolve Sunday.
“Small town, small community. We know each other, we love each other,” he told local TV station News 4 Nashville in an interview. One of his best friends drowned, he said.
“It’s tough, but we’re going to move forward,” he said. “I slow down and I talk about it, and I get emotional. If I stay — you know, if I stay working and focused, we work through it.”
President Biden said he has spoken with Tennessee’s governor and stands “ready to offer them support.”
Joey Hall, the grandfather of the two 7-month-olds, said his daughter called him, worrying about how she would afford to bury her babies. The young couple had lost nearly everything — and even before the floods swept through, they were spread thin, said Hall and his wife, Jeanna Hall, who live about an hour’s drive from Waverly in Ashland City, Tenn.
Joey Hall said his daughter’s family had recently moved into their duplex weeks ago, seeking somewhere closer to relatives — and cheaper, as they tried to get by on Rigney’s factory night-shift salary.
Danielle Hall got to hold her deceased children briefly in the hospital before they were taken away, the family said. The twins were reportedly found together.
“Every time they’d put them apart in the bed, they would cry,” said their grandfather, who is in his 40s. “You put them next to each other, they’re holding each other’s hands and arms. Sweetest thing I’ve ever seen.”
Sunday was full of tears as person after person called to offer help. A GoFundMe drive for the family has raised more than $30,000.
“God is good,” said Jeanna Hall, 38. “He sees us hurting, and how broke we are right now.”
By Sunday, the waters had receded, and the torrential rain had given way to showers. But officials were still pleading for caution and announced an 8 p.m. curfew.
TEMA said more than 10,000 customers in the storm area lacked power. Teams were still working after conducting more than 20 rescues and evacuations Saturday and searching about 100 homes and 25 businesses, the agency said. Waverly, home to several thousand people, reported that its water treatment facility was down, and residents there and in nearby Bon Aqua were told to boil their drinking water.
Authorities said the number of deaths could climb as the search effort continues.
“I would expect, given the number of fatalities we’ve seen so far, that we’re going to see mostly recovery efforts at this point, rather than rescue efforts,” TEMA Director Patrick Sheehan said during a news conference.
Other counties affected include Dickson, Hickman and Houston, according to TEMA. The sheriffs in those counties have yet to report fatalities but had urged people to stay home as they warned of downed trees and roads made impassable by water and debris.
The disaster came on quickly. Staffers stranded in the gym of an elementary school asked for prayers Saturday. A slew of agencies responded: The Tennessee National Guard said Sunday that it was flying medics and other first responders into “impassable areas” as troops roamed below in vehicles equipped for high-water rescues.
Waverly Mayor Wallace “Buddy” Frazier said in an interview that two employees in a city building put a couch on a conference table to escape the rising waters, while the director of schools headed to the roof. He said another man called his wife and “all he could say was ‘I love you.’ ”
“That’s how violent and sudden a force it was,” Frazier told The Washington Post.
Entire houses were swept away, he said: “Sometimes I’ll see a house and I’m trying to think in my mind, ‘Now where was that house?’ ”
“I just was not prepared to see the kind of devastation that we have here,” the mayor added. “I just in my wildest dreams couldn’t have dreamed that we’d have that type of damage.”
A 20-minute drive from Waverly, in McEwen, Tenn., Tamara Woodward said she and her boyfriend woke up early Saturday to strong rain but “didn’t think much of it” at first. Then her boyfriend tried to get to the farm he runs next door. He couldn’t get through the driveway, Woodward said.
They stayed inside all day as the news grew more dire. Alerts pinged on their phones; they saw a picture of a car floating by and listened to sirens. “We’ve lived here three years, and yeah, we’ve seen the creek rise maybe three times. … But nothing like this,” Woodward said.
They were not immune to the damage — their basement flooded and their farm fences toppled — but they feel intensely lucky, Woodward said. As soon as they could, they brought supplies down to donation centers, including bags of clothes, masks and sanitizer, because Woodward worries about another threat: the spread of the coronavirus.
“We’re mostly focused on just helping the people of Waverly,” she said.
When she read about the 7-month-olds, she burst into tears.
Another woman told local news station WKRN that her 2-year-old nephew, Kellen Burrow Vaughn, was also swept away and missing.
McEwen High School’s gym is acting as a reunification center, officials said, and three churches in Waverly are offering shelter: Waverly Church of Christ, First Baptist Church and Compassion Church.
“It absolutely looks like a war zone,” said Kristen Ellis Horton, who said her briefly missing family friend in Waverly was found okay. “So many people displaced. So many people have nothing.”
“This flood happened so quick. … No one was prepared,” she told.
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അക്രമവും അശ്ലീലതയും എന്ന്- ബൈബിൾ നിരോധിച്ചു യൂട്ടായിലെ പ്രൈമറി സ്കൂളുകൾ

യൂട്ടാ: “അക്രമവും’അശ്ലീലതയും “ബൈബിളിൽ അടങ്ങിയിരിക്കുന്നുവെന്ന ആരോപണം ഉന്നയിക്കപ്പെട്ടതിനെത്തുടർന്നു യുഎസിലെ യൂട്ടാ സംസ്ഥാനത്തിലെ സ്കൂൾ ഡിസ്ട്രിക്റ്റ് പ്രാഥമിക, മിഡിൽ സ്കൂളുകളിൽ നിന്ന് ബൈബിൾ നീക്കം ചെയ്തു.
കിംഗ് ജെയിംസ് ബൈബിളിൽ കുട്ടികൾക്ക് അനുയോജ്യമല്ലാത്ത വസ്തുക്കളുണ്ടെന്ന രക്ഷിതാവിന്റെ പരാതിയെ തുടർന്നാണ് നടപടി.
യൂട്ടായിലെ റിപ്പബ്ലിക്കൻ ഗവൺമെന്റ് 2022-ൽ സ്കൂളുകളിൽ നിന്ന് “അശ്ലീലമോ അശ്ലീലമോ ആയ” പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ നിരോധിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് ഒരു നിയമം പാസാക്കിയിരുന്നു
“പരമ്പരാഗതമായി, അമേരിക്കയിൽ, ബൈബിൾ ഏറ്റവും നന്നായി പഠിപ്പിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു, നന്നായി മനസ്സിലാക്കുന്നു, ഒരു കുടുംബമെന്ന നിലയിൽ വീട്ടിലും ബൈബിളിന് മുഖ്യ സ്ഥാനമാണ് നൽകിയിട്ടുള്ളത്.
ബൈബിളിന്റെ ഉള്ളടക്കം 2022-ലെ നിയമം ലംഘിക്കുന്നില്ലെന്നും എന്നാൽ “ചെറുപ്പക്കാർക്ക് അനുയോജ്യമല്ലാത്ത അശ്ലീലതയോ അക്രമമോ” ഉൾപ്പെടുന്നുവെന്ന് ജില്ലാ വിധി നിർണ്ണയിച്ചു. പ്രാദേശിക ഹൈസ്കൂളുകളിൽ പുസ്തകം നിലനിൽക്കും.
ബൈബിൾ നീക്കം ചെയ്യുന്നതിനെ താൻ എതിർക്കുന്നു ഡേവിസ് സ്കൂൾ ഡിസ്ട്രിക്റ്റിലെ ഒരു പ്രൈമറി സ്കൂൾ വിദ്യാർത്ഥിയുടെ പിതാവ് ബോബ് ജോൺസൺ സിബിഎസ് ന്യൂസിനോട് പറഞ്ഞു,
ലൈബ്രറിയിൽ നിന്നും ബൈബിൾ നീക്കം ചെയ്യുന്ന യുഎസിലെ ആദ്യവിദ്യാഭ്യാസ ജില്ലയല്ലയിതു
ചില പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ നിരോധിക്കണമെന്ന പൊതുജനങ്ങളുടെ പരാതിയെത്തുടർന്ന് ടെക്സാസിലെ ഒരു സ്കൂൾ ഡിസ്ട്രിക്റ്റ് കഴിഞ്ഞ വർഷം ലൈബ്രറി അലമാരയിൽ നിന്ന് ബൈബിൾ പിൻവലിച്ചിരുന്നു .
കഴിഞ്ഞ മാസം, കൻസസിലെ വിദ്യാർത്ഥികൾ തങ്ങളുടെ സ്കൂൾ ലൈബ്രറിയിൽ നിന്ന് ബൈബിൾ നീക്കം ചെയ്യണമെന്ന് അഭ്യർത്ഥിച്ചിരുന്നു
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അമേരിക്കൻ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ സ്നാന ശുശ്രൂഷ: 4,166 പേർ യേശുവിനെ സ്വീകരിച്ചു

കാലിഫോർണിയ: ചരിത്രമെഴുതി അമേരിക്കയിലെ ജീസസ് മൂവ്മെന്റിന്റെ നേതൃത്വത്തിൽ സംഘടിപ്പിച്ച സ്നാനശിശ്രൂഷ. അമേരിക്കൻ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ സ്നാന ശുശ്രൂഷയിൽ ജീസസ് മൂവ്മെന്റിൽ നിന്നുള്ള 4,166 പേരാണ് പൈറേറ്റ്സ് കോവിൽ നടന്ന ചടങ്ങിൽ യേശുവിനെ രക്ഷിതാവും കർത്താവുമായി സ്വീകരിച്ചത്. ജീസസ് മൂവ്മെന്റ് എന്ന സംഘടനയുടെ 50-ാം
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സ്മരണയ്ക്കായിട്ടാണ് സ്നാന ശുശ്രൂഷ സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചത്. 4,000-ത്തിലധികം ആളുകൾ കലിഫോർണിയയിലെ ജലസ്നാനം സ്വീകരിച്ചു ക്രിസ്തുവിനെ പിന്തുടർന്നതായി വെസ്റ്റ് കോസ്റ്റ് ലൈഫ് ചർച്ചിലെ പാസ്റ്റർ റേ ജീൻ വിൽസൺ പറഞ്ഞു. ജീവിതത്തിൽ മറക്കാനാവാത്ത നിമിഷമാണിതെന്ന് പാസ്റ്റർ റേ ഇൻസ്റ്റാഗ്രാമിൽ അഭിപ്രായപ്പെട്ടു.
ചർച്ച് ബാസ്സാ കാലാണ് പരിപാടി സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചത്. 280-ലധികം പള്ളികളിൽ നിന്നായി 8,000- ത്തിലധികം പേർ ചടങ്ങിന് സാക്ഷികളായി പ്രാർത്ഥനാ നിർഭരമായ അന്തരീക്ഷത്തിൽ സ്നാനം സ്വീകരിക്കാൻ കഴിഞ്ഞത് വലിയ ആത്മീയ ഉണർവിന് കാരണമായെന്ന് സ്നാനം സ്വീകരിച്ചവർ അഭിപ്രായപ്പെട്ടു.
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‘The Biggest Water Baptism in History’: 4,166 Baptized at Historic Beach from Jesus Movement

Another big sign of spiritual revival in America just took place at an historic location in California. More than 4,000 people were baptized in Pirate’s Cove on Pentecost Sunday to celebrate not only the gift of eternal life but to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Jesus Movement.
Oceans Church organized Baptize SoCal—an event advertised as “the biggest water baptism in history”. The huge event coincided with a major anniversary of the Christian awakening that saw hundreds of thousands of young people come to Christ in the 60s and 70s.
More than 280 churches and 8,000 attendees watched as 4,166 people fled to the shore of Pirates Cove to declare their new life in Christ.
Attendees report the atmosphere was electric as people praised God and celebrated their “Kingdom family.”
“What an amazing and historic day,” said musician and pastor at West Coast Life Church, Ray Gene Wilson. “Thousands baptized at Pirates Cove, God is moving in California!”
“A moment I’ll never forget,” one attendee commented on Instagram.
“This is absolutely amazing praying for all in their new walk with Jesus… Welcome to the Kingdom family,” another Instagram user commented.
Worship leader Lindy Cofer said, “The Church is alive! What a beautiful sight in Southern California yesterday!!! On the 50th anniversary of the Jesus people movement.”
“It was such a blessing to witness so many people getting baptized for one, but to be able to see [it] happen [in] the same place that the hippies did it 50 years ago for The Jesus People Movement was just surreal,” wrote videographer Eddy Ferguson.
The Jesus People movement and the baptisms in Pirates Cove are featured in the movie “Jesus Revolution”.
The movie became a box office hit after its release in theaters in February. The film also climbed to the top spot in DVD and Blu-ray sales this month.
While the film’s success may have stunned Hollywood, it didn’t surprise Southern California Pastor Greg Laurie, who told CBN News he sees God at work through the film.
“People are hungry for this,” Laurie said. “I’ve never heard of a movie in the theater that had people breaking into spontaneous prayer and worship or like I heard one story it was shown in the theater and afterward some kids wanted to be baptized and they baptized them in the fountain in front of the theater. I’ve never heard of such things, so I think these are all like little indications that God is at work.”
You can watch the full interview with Greg and Cathe Laurie on our special program “Revival in America” on CBN’s Family app tonight at 8 pm.
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