In fact, if someone had suggested years ago that Rhonda Mills and her husband, Donnie Mills, would be hosting weekly Masses in the metal shed outside their house, "I'd say you're crazy," she said in a recent phone conversation with The Western Kentucky Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Owensboro. And yet the Mills family is now in their third month of welcoming fellow members of Resurrection Parish in Dawson Springs following a severe tornado outbreak in December 2021 that devastated Kentucky and surrounding states and left Resurrection's church building destroyed.
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OWENSBORO, Ky. (CNS) Celebrating Mass in a 20-by-25-foot metal outbuilding on Dec. 24, 2021, for the displaced community of Resurrection Parish in Dawson Springs, the image that came to mind for Owensboro Bishop William F. Medley was there was no room at the inn.
Resurrection Church was among the buildings lost to the historic tornadoes that hit western Kentucky in December. Christmas Masses were held in a 25-foot metal outbuilding.