MALVEAUX: Turning to their faith in the tornado disaster zone. Members of a Lutheran church in Joplin, Missouri, gathered to worship near the ruins of their sanctuary. Here they are in their own words.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We open this service in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The church was gone, which was completely devastating. All of it -- I mean the whole community was gone. It looked like a bomb had exploded here.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let us open -- sing the opening him "Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee." In less than 20 minutes, lives were changed. Some for eternity. People still alive were changed. Billings and houses were changed. Joplin was changed. And it will never be quite the same for any of us.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Our church is our family. We are not just a building.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So now we know what has happened. The question now is, what will happen.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing): Lord, listen to your children praying. Send us --</s>JUDY STILES, PRESIDENT OF THE CONGREGATION: When God talked about people gathering, he didn't say we had to gather in a building. The church is the people. We have no building. We have no -- the chairs we used were something that was salvaged out of the building. As far as material things, they're gone, but we have the people.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We can rebuild this church, and we will rebuild this church. And we will rebuild it right here. We still have our belief and we still have our future and I still have my belief in God and I will never, ever not have that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Amen. Go in peace. Serve the Lord. Thanks be to God. Thank you all.</s>MALVEAUX: What an amazing story. CNN NEWSROOM continues right now with Joe Johns, who's in for Ali Velshi. Hey, Joe.</s>JOE JOHNS, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Suzanne.
Worship In Tornado Disaster Zone