‘I don’t know where she is’: Parents face excruciating wait for news of their missing children after tornado destroys Oklahoma


My comment:  My heart breaks for this community and these children and their parents.  Pray for them.

(Daily Mail)  Parents of missing children wait at St. Andrews United Methodist Church

Stood on muddy grass outside a suburban church, many parents just stare into the distance, some holding the hands of young children who are missing their siblings.

Anxious: Parents wait in the hope of being reunited with their missing children at St. Andrews United Methodist Church following the devastating tornado

They are here in hope, desperately waiting to be reunited with their children following the deadly tornado which ripped through Oklahoma.

As the parents and guardians of missing children wait at St. Andrews United Methodist Church, they listen intently. Those who are fortunate here someone with a bullhorn calling out the names of surviving children who are being dropped off

For those families, the ordeal ended in bear hugs and tears of joy as loved ones are reunited.

However, other families are left to wait in the darkness, still hoping for good news while fearing the worst.

At least 20 children are among the more than 91 reported dead so far in Moore, the Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by Monday’s tornado that packed winds of up to 200 mph.

The twister reduced one elementary school to a heaping mound of rubble and heavily damaged another while also flattening block after block of homes.

At St. Andrews, Tonya Sharp and Deanna Wallace sat at a table in the church’s gymnasium waiting for their teenage daughters.

As Sharp and Wallace spoke, a line of students walked in.

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Wallace spotted her 16-year-old daughter, who came quickly her way and jumped into her mother’s arms, pushing her several steps backward in the process.

But Sharp didn’t see her daughter, a 17-year-old who has epilepsy. She worried her daughter hadn’t taken her medicine.

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  1. Praying for those in the affected area and special prayers going up for the parents still looking for their children. Heartbreaking!

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