Communities lean on past grief to heal ‘together’ after deadly Tennessee plant blast

WAVERLY, TN — Pastor Daron Brown comforted a grieving congregation on Oct. 12 with prayer, an all-too-familiar calling in recent years.

The Waverly Church of the Nazarene lost community members and its building in a 2021 flood. The son of a family in the congregation is among those presumed killed in last week’s explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems.

Members of the victim’s family sat in the front row during Brown’s service. During the procession for communion, fellow parishioners embraced and offered comforting words to the family…

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