Sunday worship after Texas floods filled with sorrow and fear
The Guadalupe River was rising — again.
'We need you to be here,' Rev. Bert Baetz assured the nearly three dozen people in the congregation.
The church had held a funeral for one of their own the day before: 8-year-old Renee Smajstrla, one of two dozen girls who died in this month's flooding at nearby Camp Mystic.
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