in your mind everything should be burned ashes not a single firefighter was hurt not a single bible was burned and not a single cross was harmed the church asked for prayers for pastor phil and candice farrington as well as the whole church family more painting of jesus christ miraculously survives fire that destroyed 150yearold church images show expected levels of damage with burned walls and a blackened cross left on the wall picture this a building so hot that at one point in time firefighters had to back out the coal city fire department which joined the beaver volunteer fire department to stop the fire wrote in a facebook post god is working we know hours before sunday mass was scheduled to start this past weekend a fire broke out at the freedom ministries church in daniels west virginia coal city fire department the fire departments images of the surviving bibles quickly went viral garnering many messages of support please know we love you and are for ever grateful on their own facebook freedom ministries wrote on sunday they will have to rebuild but we will be ok adding that they were coming back from a youth conference and would join in prayer that evening at the church but while that damage was evident firefighters found some items that were spared the churchs bibles not a single bible was burned and not a single cross was harmed bibles and books sit unharmed after a fire at freedom ministries church march 3 2019 in west virginia the fire department wrote more after a monthlong fast church pays off 100000 in debt for 34 college students freedom ministries said in a facebook comment we are overwhelmed with all the love prayers concerns and offers of help we cant thank you all enough neither the church nor the fire department immediately responded to requests for comment from abc news