Posted on 07/27/2020 9:06:16 AM PDT by lightman
More than 40 people have coronavirus after attending a week-long revival at a small north Alabama Baptist church last week, pastor Daryl Ross said today. Only two male members’ cases were serious, he said. “One respiratory, he almost got put in the hospital, but he’s OK,” Ross said. “The other one fought it off with two days in bed.”
“The whole church has got it, just about,” Ross said, and that includes himself. Ross said he has tested positive but has few symptoms.
The Warrior Creek Missionary Baptist Church is located in a small Marshall County community called Strawberry. It dates to the 1860s and usually has between 80 and 100 at Sunday services.
“We had church Wednesday night. We were in revival, morning and night services,” Ross said. “On the way back over Thursday is when we found out. I got a call that one of our guys in the church has tested positive. So, we shut down revival and, by Friday night, I’ve got church members sick everywhere.”
Baptist revivals are week-long events usually featuring a guest evangelist. Their purpose is to bring church members closer together and encourage professions of faith from attendees who have not been baptized into the church. “We have day and night services and, after morning services, families carry the pastor and evangelist home to eat dinner with them,” Ross explained. The visiting evangelist followed that pattern and has reported no symptoms, Ross said.
The man believed to have brought the virus to revival also had no symptoms, Ross said. “He had three guys at work that came down positive,” he said. “From work, they made him test, and he came back positive. No symptoms.”
The man still has no symptoms, Ross said, but his “entire family” has the virus now. “I ate lunch with him,” Ross said. “No nothing. Not a sniffle. Not a headache. Nothing.”
As for himself, Ross said, “I can’t smell or taste, a little sinus, that’s all I’ve had. The whole church has been running fever and headaches and terrible respiratory (issues), and I’ve been building fences and bush-hogging.”
Preachers from other churches have called to find out what happened and how, Ross said. “We just know we had a guy tested positive right in the middle of the revival,” Ross said. “That’s all we know.”
Masks weren’t required for the revival, and Ross said “most members” skipped the week because of the virus. Churchgoers usually range in age from babies to 97 years old, he said. “We let everybody do what they felt like,” he said of those who came. “We social distanced. Most of them sat with their own family. If you were comfortable shaking hands, you shook hands. If you didn’t, you didn’t.”
“We knew what we were getting into,” Ross said. “We knew the possibilities. But, my goodness, man, for three days we had one of the old-time revivals. It was unbelievable. And everybody you ask, if you talk to our church members right now, they’d tell you we’d do it again. It was that good.”
The media wouldn’t tell you if there were. They want the criminals out there...
That’s stories they like.
No problem if they had a gin and tonic party afterwards.
Tonic = active ingredient in HCQ. ‘Course they may need to party together for 14 days ...
Amazing how this narrative of Church=Covid...
But meanwhile, mayhem, looting, rioting, living on the street, drug dens in cities, homeless, protesting.... “Fine Citizens” that are exercising their Constitutionally protected freedoms.
Good grief...
They’re deliberately l not testing the rioters
Pennlive, unfortunately, is the best (and all too frequently, the ONLY) source for doings in the PA State government.
They are part of a broader network of news organs whose sites end with “live” including NJ, MI, and Mass.
Almost everything in Philly is garbage.
We have a he-bitch Secretary of Health, and a Nazi funded DA.
North Philly/Kensington is an open air drug market, and it’s 10 minutes to NJ. We suck...
Exactly. Let’s close all churches immediately. Think of the children.
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So? How many died from it? They knew the risk when they went to church.
Still wondering about cause and effect.
Other than testing positive, and who knows where they actually contracted it, are any hospitalized or dead?
I have only been to Philly once. That was three years ago to see The Mummers Parade on New Year’s Day. Really enjoyed it too.
N=1 is a bad sample size...
ALL LIES. I don’t believe ANY OF THIS. The test gives positives for the common cold.
Go ahead, make fun. The powers-that-be are using ANYTHING they can to make the case to shut down churches NATIONWIDE, and you are making jokes about Christians.
Notice the author felt the need to explain what a “revival” is.
I guess he thinks real Americans are as secular as the media.
Did the man who came to the revival know people from his work were getting tested?
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Of course he knew. Work made him get tested because 3 co-workers were positive. That man is a selfish fool for coming to the revival without first getting his test results.
I spent two yrs in Philly one day...
“Bush-hogging”???????
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