AUSTELL, Ga. — A woman has been charged with setting a Cobb County church on fire and threatening its leaders.
Aries Jordan has been charged with arson, terroristic threats, property damage and more, according to Cobb County Jail records.
According to arrest warrants, Jordan set fire to Prayer City Eagles Chapel International Ministries on Joe Jerkins Blvd. in Austell and sent threatening text messages where she threatened to burn the church and killed the pastor.
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Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell was at the church on Tuesday where church leaders told her they had been receiving threatening text messages before the fire.
They say Jordan is a former church member.
“Last night, she’s sending us messages telling us, ‘Your building is gone,’” one leader said.
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Pastor Raphael Grant says it has been just a few years since the building flooded and was fully renovated, and now he’s lost the church building again.
Grant says they have insurance, but are relying on online donations.
The church suffered about $4 million in damage.
They plan to hold a church service in the parking lot on Sunday morning.
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