The family of a faculty member at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary averted a tragedy last weekend, and they are crediting the providence of God in protecting the five family members and their home.
Christian Walker, a fifth-grade schoolteacher and wife of Andrew Walker, associate dean of the School of Theology and associate professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology at Southern Seminary, said her car caught on fire in the attached garage of their home. She immediately thinks on “all the little things the Lord did to help us see it and make decisions and keep the fire from burning too big. There was nothing damaged, no lives (lost or injured) — it was incredible.”
Smelling smoke
She had dropped off their oldest daughter, Caroline, at midnight Friday for a lock-in at their church, Highview Feganbush. She then went through the drive-through lane at Taco Bell, where she started smelling something burning. On the drive home she smelled it “off and on.” But she did not see any smoke and no fire or smoke coming from under the hood.
Arriving home around 12:40 a.m., she pulled the car into the garage, which was immediately filled with smoke.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Chip Hutcheson and originally published by Kentucky Today.
