COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — For the second time in less than a year, a fire has struck the 103-year-old 24th Street Missionary Baptist Church.
The blaze Wednesday night picked up where the November 4, 2024 fire left off. Since the fire last November, the congregation has been meeting elsewhere, while the church sits vacant and that’s a concern.
“I knew that there was a homeless population around and I knew that they had been in the church back and forth since the first fire in November 2024,” said Evangelist Carla Flournoy, a church member…