Members of Pleasant Valley Baptist Church held services at a different location on Sunday following a devastating fire that damaged the church’s office building.
On Friday afternoon, Pastor Paul David Taylor was preparing his Sunday sermon when he smelled smoke inside the church offices."I called my wife and told her to pray because the building was on fire," he said.Video from SKY 4 showed the intense flames and heavy smoke that filled the air.One firefighter was injured but is expected to recover.The 85-year-old pastor was the only one inside the church at the time of the fire, and he made it out unharmed.
"The building is not the church. The congregation is the church. And even if there’s no building, they’d still be a church," said Bob Hoffman.Hoffman has close ties to the church and was invited to preach to the congregation on Sunday evening."It was just a wonderful service, and I felt the spirit might be moving tonight," he said.Most of the damage was to the roof of the church offices.
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