Hope for Joplin

While in Joplin we were able to see all the devastation that the recent tornado did. It is absolutely unbelievable and hard to put in words what it really looks like. I have never seen anything like it before in my life. The pictures really do not do it justice.

We saw so many trees stripped of their bark and just completely uprooted.

We saw lots of homes with just the center most room left standing and so, so many that were just completely wiped off their foundation.

Tons of cars that were twisted and mangled

This is Joplin High School, home of the Eagles. Someone has temporarily renamed it Hope High school and there have been eagles carved out of some of the trees that were ripped up by the tornado.
This is in the parking lot of the church that my family went to. The empty lot is where the church building stood just across from Joplin High school.


As many times as we have been to Joplin it was hard to recognize were we were. There is miles and miles of nothing where there use to be houses and businesses. It is so sad to see, yet Joplin is pulling together and the rebuilding has already begun. After rolling through town on Friday night and just seeing the little that we did, Joshua made this Saturday morning.....