Restoration project resurrects man’s career in stained glass

As Kenny Campbell works at First Christian Church in Joplin, he is on familiar ground. Or rather, high above it on 30-foot scaffolding as he restores the luster of a large rose window on the church’s south side. Thirty-two years ago, Campbell worked on these same windows.

In 1977, Campbell was working for the Miami Glass Co. First Christian Church contacted the company to do repair work after a storm damaged several of the building’s historic stained glass windows. The company didn’t want the job, but Campbell was interested in the project. He had done smaller stained glass windows, but never anything of the church’s size before.

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