TALE OF TWO CHURCHES: Pair of Texas pastors stay hopeful after tornado levels their sanctuaries

The tornado that ravaged two churches that once stood less than a mile away from each other couldn’t destroy the hopes of two Texas pastors.

Pastor Kevin Taylor, who survived by taking cover in his church, and pastor Ron Adams, whose church was destroyed while he enjoyed a basketball game with his wife, were both determined to rebuild their sanctuaries less than a day after the devastating storm.

“Well I don’t have a building,” pastor Kevin Taylor, told NBC. “[But] I still have a church.”

Taylor ran into the Harvest of Praise Ministry Church in Red Oak to grab something Saturday evening when the violent winds pummeled the walls around him into ground.

“Everything went black,” he said. “Stuff fell on top of me.”

Once taylor realized he was unharmed he ran outside to call for his wife, who’d been waiting for him in the car.

The tornado had flung the doors of their van open and shattered the windows, but she was alive and well.

God got us through, somehow," he told NBC.

Taylor said his faith was undeterred and he’d now focus his efforts on rebuilding the church.

Pastor Ron Adams held a service atop the rubble of what used to be the Ovilla Road Church of the Nazarene in Glenn Heights the next morning.

“We sang a couple of songs: ‘Amazing Grace,’ ‘Victory in Jesus,’” Adams told CBS.

“We just praised God that nobody was hurt.”

Adams was at a Dallas Mavericks game with his wife Cheryl wife when the tornado hit.

Undeterred by the rain, dozens of people showed up to worship and help clear the debris.

Adams, who’s been with the church since 2009, told CBS he was heartened by the fact that the storm spared the dove on the church’s stained glass window.

He said the church will be rebuilt “bigger and better. Amen