Scores turn out for healing service after Nova Scotia church fire
HALIFAX — Scores of people clad in white gathered Sunday for a healing service in a community gym across the street from a fire-ravaged historic church just outside Halifax.
The service was originally scheduled to take place in St. Thomas Baptist Church in North Preston, N.S., but was moved after a blaze tore through the church last Wednesday.
No one was injured, but the fire left a gaping hole in the roughly century-old building that serves as the social hub for the predominantly black community of about 4,000 people.
Rev. Wallace Smith told the crowd that the charred structure was just a building, and that the congregation was the actual church