Ceiling collapse ends service

AUBURN - A small congregation stood in a circle on a South Street sidewalk, holding hands while praising Jesus and singing.

An hour before, just as the Sunday noon service wasbeginning, part of the ceiling collapsed in the back of the Soul Healing Ministries building.

“We heard a rumbling, and we saw the dust,” the Rev. Chester Seals said. The pastor likened the dust cloud to images of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when the Twin Towers fell.