Church celebrates rebirth after arson fire

Members of a Brooklyn church celebrated Easter on Sunday while marking how far they have come since an arson fire at their former house of worship. As News 12 has reported, the fire forced the church

News 12 Staff

Mar 28, 2016, 2:57 AM

Updated 3,236 days ago

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Members of a Brooklyn church celebrated Easter on Sunday while marking how far they have come since an arson fire at their former house of worship.
As News 12 has reported, the fire forced the church from its home in Brownsville two years ago. No arrests have been made in the case.
The church drifted for a while looking for a new home, before settling in a location on Willoughby Avenue in Beford-Stuyvesant.
"We moved from that church that we were using to several other buildings and then we ended up here, so it's definitely been a journey," said the church's pastor, D.A. Sherron. "We went from survival mode to now stability."
The church says the new location has been a blessing, because there's a void in the area that needs to be filled for lots of people who are just down on their luck.
Now the church is looking forward to opening a second location back in Brownsville. "We're a tree, and we're going to have many branches," Sherron says.