(The Center Square) – A church in the mountains of eastern Tennessee is rebuilding after Hurricane Helene’s flood waters ripped away parts of the building.
The main sanctuary is mostly intact. Recovery, now in the sixth week, remains a journey.
Volunteers had to dig out Riverview Baptist Church in Erwin and fully gut the building to begin rebuilding. Water and mud damaged the church’s electrical system.
“We had about 2½, 3 feet of water in the second story level where the sanctuary is,” Jeff Simmons, a deacon at the church, told The Center Square in an interview. “So, when the water went down, we had about a foot of mud in there. And the basement had anywhere from 3 to 4 feet of mud in
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