‘God took care of us’
The Western Journal
Dozens of American Christians are home safe Wednesday morning after they were caught in Israel during Saturday’s unprecedented and deadly terror attacks.
Members of Hamas killed at least 1,200 Israelis in a multi-pronged attack that saw men, women and children indiscriminately massacred along the country’s border with the Gaza Strip.
Twenty-two Americans had been confirmed dead as of Wednesday while more are missing, Yahoo News reported.
But 48 members of Kingsport, Tennessee’s Sunnyside Baptist Church touched down safely in Atlanta on Tuesday before they made their way north and back home by bus.
They arrived Wednesday morning at around 2 a.m..
According to WJHL-TV, the church’s congregation was in Israel visiting sacred holy sites when the attacks began.
The Kingsport Times-News reported that they were out on a tour Saturday and heard explosions throughout the morning and afternoon.
The Americans found refuge in a hotel and eventually found a flight back to the U.S.
Sunnyside Associate Pastor David Luster said he was relieved to see that everyone had made it back home.
It’s hard to express how you feel,” Luster told WJHL after he had received news the bus was en route to Tennessee.
“There’s so many emotions that go through us, when we see this, when we hear this, when we get all the phone calls, and the things that we don’t know. It’s the unknown. Now we know, as much as we can.”