From Mobile-The Rev. Julius Bryant said he felt nervous Sunday morning as he stood before his congregation, which was displaced by the Christmas Day tornado.
Since taking the position of senior pastor at Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church only three months ago, he thought he had overcome the nerves he felt the first few times he preached.
“It was a very emotional service for my church, but they were not emotional in the sense of sadness but emotional in the sense of thanking God that we were all together and had such a good turnout,” said Pastor Bryant, recalling the morning service Sunday night. He said he turned to Joshua 6:1-5 from the Old Testament to deliver a sermon on “when victory looks like defeat.”
Bryant estimated that about 240 people – almost a normal crowd -- attended the Sunday service, which was held at Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church, not far from damaged Sweet Pilgrim on St. Charles Avenue. “It was quite an awesome experience today,” he said.
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