The Brief

PHOENIX - A pastor is asking the Phoenix community for help after a fire caused $12,000 in property damage at Life Changers Global Ministries, located near 7th Street and Broadway Road , on Sunday night.

What we know:

The fire destroyed a brand-new mobile building, which was meant to serve as classrooms for preschoolers, and a place for the large homeless population in this area.

Phoenix Fire Department is investigating the cause of the Aug. 31 fire.

The backstory:

Pastor Dr. Earl Newton and his wife took $6,000 out of their savings and forfeited their church salary, until they had $12,000. The $12,000 was all this church had.

This money was enough to build mobile classrooms for preschoolers displaced by upheaval in the Roosevelt School District, and a place for the

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