Tornado rips through Oklahoma City area

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Today I am praying for the people of Moore, OK.

 Several tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa on Sunday and Monday. The most severely affected town is Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City.

The tornado struck Monday afternoon. The National Weather Service classified it as an EF-5 and said it reached up to a half-mile wide. At least 24 people are dead and more than a hundred are injured as of Tuesday morning.  Two area elementary schools, Plaza Towers and Briarwood, took significant damage. All students and teachers were accounted for at Briarwood, but at least seven children were killed at Plaza Towers and some are still missing. The town has no running water and more than 40,000 people are without electricity.

Southwest Oklahoma District Superintendent Jim Cooper said Moore Church of the Nazarene, located about two miles from the destruction zone, wants to be a part of any relief effort to the hundreds without homes, clothing, and resources. He says that there are probably some from the church whose children attended the two damaged elementary schools.

General Superintendent Stan A. Toler will travel to the area on Tuesday with a Nazarene Compassionate Ministries team. Days before his election as general superintendent, Toler was elected superintendent of the Southwest Oklahoma District. He previously pastored two churches in Oklahoma City.

How to help
Persons and churches wishing to make a donation can do so online through Nazarene Compassionate Ministries at ncm.org.

 Here is a clip I saw on the news today that touched my heart: