Shelli Poole of My Saline.com gets to the bottom of the removal this week of the Prepare to Meet God sign that has greeted I-30 motorists in Benton for a half-century or more.

Spoiler alert: It was to be put back up. But Poole relates the whole story of the sign, first erected in the name of a Missionary Baptist church.

Preparations remain in order.

Retired senior editor of the Arkansas Times.