Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock called for prayers after a woman attempted an arson on Dr. Martin Luther King’s childhood home.
During his sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, located one block away on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Warnock addressed the crime and the person accused.
“You probably saw the news that an obviously very troubled young woman tried to set fire to the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr.,” Warnock said. “We’re not so much mad at her as much as we’re praying for her, for she is obviously troubled.”
Warnock continue, “We know somebody who can reach her and can lift her. We know somebody who loves her. Anybody here know a God who looks beyond your faults and sees your needs?”
Laneisha Shantrice Henderson, 26, was caught on video throwing gasoline on the home.