Kentucky gives pastor award after Tornado hit really heart felt

Jezimar “Nuno” Norberto, the worship pastor at Porter Memorial Baptist Church, is thanking God for keeping his wife and two boys safe after a tornado took out the sunroom in his home in Nicholasville. The storm split his roof in half and blew it across the street into a neighbor’s yard. The back wall of the garage was also destroyed.

Norberto was on his way to church when the tornado hit. His wife, Sarah, calmly gathered the boys and went to the bathroom in the home where they stayed until it passed. She called her husband and used Facetime to show him the destruction and tell him he needed to come home.

My wife saw the collapse of the sunroom and then got the boys and went into the bathroom,” he said.

What was typically a six-minute drive home, took more than 30 minutes on the backroads, he said. Debris and downed power lines made driving a hazard, too.

“When I was driving home, a semi-truck was on the street, kind of sideways,” he said. “Sheds were on the street and light poles were down.”

Norberto said while he was driving through the hazards, he was also praying and thanking the Lord that his family was safe. The couple’s daughter was playing across the street at a neighbor’s home that wasn’t affected by the tornado.

Honestly,” he said, “that was a long prayer.”

When Norberto arrived at his home, saw the damage and went inside to find everybody safe, relief came over him. His prayers were answered.

“When I got there, Sarah was calm,” he said. “My boys (ages 14 and 11) were kind of shook up. I can’t imagine (how it was) for my wife and my boys.”

Norberto said being the victim of disaster like this is different for them. “We’re always helping people go through something like that,” he said. “I’ve never been on this side of things