When a powerful EF-4 tornado with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour
slammed the Union University campus on February 5, 2008, destroying
eighteen dormitory buildings and causing $40 million in damage, the
immediate assumption was that dozens if not hundreds of lives would have
been lost. Miraculously, nobody died, and the next morning major media
outlets flocked to Jackson, Tennessee, where Union students and faculty
credited God for their survival and got to share their faith with millions
worldwide.
God in the Whirlwind recounts the entire experience through twenty
eye-of-the-storm accounts from those who saw the walls and ceilings
crashing down upon them and felt their ears pop as the pressure dropped,
from anxious parents who waited for their child’s call, and from Union
leaders who marvel at the university’s unbroken spirit in the face of such
devastation. This inspiring book also includes eighty photographs that
visualize God’s mighty hand upon nature and his gentle hand of grace.
