A Dallas-area church says its future is uncertain after multiple inches of sleet and snow forced its sanctuary to collapse.
Leadership at Kingdom Culture Dallas in Cedar Hill said it happened sometime between Friday night and Tuesday morning.
Senior Leader Sherman Dumas said no one was in the building at the time.
They’d all left following a worship service on Friday night. Tuesday morning, staff found the roof of the sanctuary had given way.
“They FaceTimed me, and I’m like, you got to be kidding me, but it still didn’t hit until I got in the building and actually saw the devastation,” said Dumas.
Dumas said it’s too soon to know what the future holds.
He and his wife expanded their congregation from San Bernardino, California to Cedar Hill back in 2024.
While they hope insurance will make them whole, online fundraisers already raised more than $20,000 to help in the meantime.
“Just kind of overnight, we’re a pop-up mobile church unexpectedly, and so that’s going to take a whole other level of resources to be able to manage this and manage wherever we’re going to be going,” he said.
This Sunday, Kingdom Culture will meet for worship at the neighboring Inspiring Body of Christ Church in Dallas.
They continue to look for a more long-term temporary home.
Even amid the wreckage, Dumas is finding reasons to hope that his congregation will be able to continue serving for years to come.
“If God allowed this to happen, there has to be something good on the other side of this that’s going to bring hope and be able to impact others to let them know that if they’re in a down moment, there’s always a way to be able to triumph over it,” he said.
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