Last Tuesday night the sky around the city of Durban was burnished with a bright orange blaze, seen from kilometres away. Vehicles stopped on a freeway to gaze at the consuming tongues of fire. As firemen frantically fought the blaze, hundreds of people huddled together to watch the Durban Christian Centre, Jesus Dome, dramatically being destroyed. Members of the church prayed, wept, or bravely sang, with voices thin and choked with emotion. The Jesus Dome was in ashes. But five days later 7,500 voices were raised to Heaven in praise, adoration and thanksgiving in Growthpoint Kings Park rugby stadium – an incredible reaction by the saints of the Jesus Dome, giving a triumphant response to Tuesday’s disaster. ‘We are coming back bigger and stronger,’ was the unequivocal cry from senior pastors, and an ‘amen’ response was enough for passers-by to think there was a rugby match in progress. From Sunday worshippers will meet in a borrowed 2,500-seater tent pitched opposite the burnt-out Jesus Dome.