The church also had the idea to take advantage of the extra attention and attendance that Sunday to conduct a food drive to benefit a local Food Pantry and Humane Society.
Stuff.co.nz describes workers lowered into the ruins in buckets, and retrieving pieces of masonry “about the size of car engines, along with smaller pieces the size of a can of beans.” Pieces of stained glass still intact within their lead frames have also been recovered.
“I feel myself relax as I listen to the voices. I know singing is good for you, I know community is good for you, but in that moment of voices rising as women, I feel more powerfully this goodness.”