JUSTIN EPLEY
Staff writer
Hours before the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in Burke County were set to be administered, members of the local health care and church communities prayed over the situation.
Employees of Carolinas HealthCare System Blue Ridge, area pastors and community members showing their support encircled the upper level of the parking deck at the Morganton hospital on Thursday afternoon.
The prayer circle included more than 30 people in all â some in scrubs, some in business attire, some dressed more casually â and was guided by the Rev. Robby Smith, director of missions for the Catawba River Baptist Association, an organization binding together dozens of local churches in united missions.