Hackleburg Community Church was completely destroyed in the
tornado. When they rebuilt, they added a youth building. This includes a gym,
bathrooms, a youth service room for older kids/teens and a room for younger
child/Kst-5th grade. The rooms are large and painted a neutral
color. In the younger kid’s room the walls are painted sky blue on top and
grass green on the bottom. The stage is at the far end with a finished 8 foot
by 2.5 foot wide opening for puppet ministry. The new theme for this ministry
will be Kidz Treehouse Ministry. The
Kidz ministry team came up with this theme and asked to make it happen. So a
mature leafy green tree was designed around the opening and made to look like a
treehouse. Small friendly animals were painted on the side walls close to the
stage, while a floor to ceiling barn front was painted around the actual double
glass exit door. The students will go through the “barn doors” to get to the
outside future play area. The wall opposite
has a tranquil outdoor scene of children playing. The back wall has three
images that represent the ‘old’ town.
There is an quaint white country church, the old water tower that
survived the 1948 tornado and the 2011 tornado intact, and a cute one room
school house.
