76-year-old church catches fire on Houston's south side

now is 504 breaking news overnight. A community is reeling after a 76 year old church caught fire overnight. Are you go? Chi? Loka is live at the church in Houston's south side and ago. Chi. Thankfully, no one was hurt, but folks are really devastated there this morning. Yeah, Kimberly, that's correct. The Houston Fire Department says they were able to make sure no one was hurt in this fire. No injuries. In fact, no one was here at the time. None of their firefighters got hurt either. However, church members are trying to figure out where to go, where what happens next members of South Union Missionary Baptist Church. We're trying to figure it all out now. Take a look at your screen. This is video of the church fire just before midnight is when H. F. D. Responded to this fire in their sanctuary. They struggled at first to get in the church. Luckily, they were able to keep the fire from spreading to other parts of the building. But they but we understand where they have church service is severely damaged. One woman who says she's best friends with the church founder's daughter tells us they were coming back from the rodeo last night when they saw the flames. We were pulling up to her home and we saw her church on fire and her daddy is one of the original, um, founders of this church. Yes, it is a devastating loss of our plans. We're just gonna get together as a group and decide which way we're gonna go forward. A lot to think through here. That was the church pastor you just heard from right there. And we do know that he mentioned that, you know, because of this church fire, some of the services they offer the community could be impacted as well as where they're going to have service moving forward. So that is something they're trying to, of course, figure out. Arson investigators right now looking into the cause of this fire reporting live in south Houston. You go to Iloka KHU 11 News. Such a difficult situation to be in. I know it's just a house of worship, which is just a building so you can have church anywhere, but it's still a really sad thing to see happen. Go to Iloka. Thank you for that live report. And right now we plan to stay on top of the latest details of this fire throughout the morning. For now, you can find our full coverage on KHOU dot com.