The Tazewell Church opens most of the building after the electrical fire in June 2024

Tazewell, tenn. – The municipalities accept again in the Springdale Missionary Baptist Church after being reopened in early February after an electric fire that destroyed most of the church in June 2024.

Brandon Christian, the pastor, said an electric fire burned down most of the Springdale Missionary Baptist Church, and the neighbors quickly worked on how to set it up again. He said the fire was traumatic for him and his community, but he said her collective efforts to rebuild it, had brought it forward on a new way.

“The best way to describe it, we are at home and it's just a great relief to be at home,” said Christian. “The church is more than just one building – it is the people in it. We went through it to the end, and this is our reward.”

Members of the congregation and neighbors in Tazewell have voluntarily registered for their time and resources in the past 8 months in order to build up the church almost exclusively. These efforts covered most of the estimated damage of 1 million US dollars.

During the reconstruction, the community gathered in the narrower room like the primitive Baptist church next door.

“It is the first thing I've ever seen that the community has contracted so much. I have the feeling that it is the Lord who pulls us together again and shows us that there is still a purpose. There are still cause,” said Christian.

He said that the church grew before the fire. He said that membership is still growing and three new people who have joined in the new area of ​​the Church during a service.