Faith-based groups help provide food, love to tornado victims

WEST LIBERTY — It was just pinto beans and plain, white bread, but the meal nearly brought Sarah Prader to tears.

Her power had been out for four days, curtains were still blowing through her windows where glass used to be, and milk, butter and soda were sitting on the front porch rimmed by snow to keep cool.

Prader was grateful to receive a hot meal, grateful also to give what she could.

"God spared this house for a reason," said Prader, who had 15 people living in her two-story house, some of them neighbors she barely knew before Friday's tornado.

"That's right," said J.C. Stamper, a volunteer with the Kentucky Baptist Convention disaster relief team who delivered Prader's meal and promptly engulfed her in a one-armed hug.

"This is not the end of the story," said Stamper, who came to help from nearby Ezel with his wife, Irene. "God is here with us."

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