Despite the extensive damage, no one was hurt, according to a Thursday morning parish statement.
“It is with great sorrow to announce that there [was] a fire at St. Joseph last night,” the parish said. “We are still gathering information. The fire continues inside the church but is contained to the church. A great blessing is that as far as we know no one was hurt. We will have more information soon, but we are asking for prayers at this time.”
“What I was told by the investigators is that the church building is pretty much a loss,” Meeuswen said on a Fox 12 Oregon broadcast Thursday morning.
“I’m very sad that we lost the church building, very sad,” Meeuswen said. “But the church also isn’t just a building, it’s a people. The people of St. Joseph will pull together.”
“It’s super sad,” he added. “But we’ll move on, and we’ll keep doing the mission of Jesus Christ to the best of our ability.”
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