A local church and community members are working to renovate a house for a mother and her two young children who lost everything in an apartment fire last week.

Sequenya, “Queen,” Akins and her children, who had been sleeping in their car following the fire, are currently staying in a motel while volunteers prepare their future home.

Christ the Living Cornerstone Church graciously offered up the house for her family to live in rent free, which is now undergoing significant renovations with the help of local businesses and community members.

“All we want to do is bless someone,” said Pastor Key of Christ the Living Cornerstone Church. “Because at the end of the day, God is going to ask us, were we the one that picked that person up? Did we take care of them?”

The renovation project has

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