As St. Johns County braces for an Arctic cold front that will bring freezing temperatures this week and into next week, a local church is opening as a cold-weather shelter.
First United Methodist Church in St. Augustine opened overnight Thursday as St. Johns County’s only cold shelter of the week.
The Rev. Alesia Ford-Burse spoke from the sanctuary of St. Paul AME Church on Thursday, reflecting on the historic parish that she began leading in December. During the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr.