“Our church is not a building,” Ben Lovvorn, executive pastor, said in a Saturday interview in front of the sanctuary.
The church’s announcement came just a few hours after Dallas Fire-Rescue battled a fire that caused the church’s secondary chapel to collapse.
Fire damage of First Baptist Dallas church is seen, Saturday, July 20, 2024, after a fire early Friday evening, downtown Dallas.that caused the historic church’s secondary chapel — which served as a place of worship for over a century until the church opened a new facility in 2013 — to “largely” collapse, an official said. “It’s not bricks and mortar. It’s the people, and we’re going to come together and we’re going to worship together.
In a statement on Friday, Robert Jeffress, senior pastor, said: “We are grateful that no life has been lost that we know of even though we just had 2,000 children and volunteers on campus for Vacation Bible School. As tragic as the loss of this old sanctuary is, we are grateful that the church is not bricks and wood but composed of over 16,000 people who are determined more than ever before to reach the world for the gospel of Christ. Please pray for all of First Baptist Dallas.
The church now has about 16,000 members and says its mission is to transform the world with God’s word one life at a time through its ministries, including its international broadcast of Pathway to Victory and its iCampus, which reaches millions of listeners and viewers worldwide.
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