Scarred and worn, an old metal cross once bound for the junk heap stands strong at its new home on a Nebraska acreage.
Kim Bate, a Lutheran Vicar in southeastern Nebraska and a group of volunteers recovered the cross after Kim's neighbor Ralph saw that it had been taken down from its previous site. Kim says the old cross is just the beginning of a new phase for the property.
"Over the next few years, we're going to try to get this place set up as a people to come and retreat, to have a quiet minute to walk, and to pray, to think."
"Every single one of us is a survivor of something ... and you shouldn't feel bad about it. This old cross doesn't feel bad."
