Youth Room Break-in

Hi friends,

Word is sort of getting around about the youth room break in, so I will let you know what we know.

1. One or more people broke into the youth room at some point on July 4th by smashing the front window. Jason Titus noticed it in the afternoon and called the police.

2. The thieves ransacked the youth room and stole about $35 worth of money from soda sales, almost all of the soda and bottled water, the old VHS video camera that we never used, a first aid kit, and all the otter pops and klondike bars. They pulled off the hinges on the locked cabinet and dumped out a storage tub. They also pried open a small window in the Lansings' storage shed, but it didn't look like anything was taken since they could not get the front door open.

3. A police report has been filed. The officer has been by to check the room at least once tonight (I was there alone and he really surprised me!)

4. The Titus family - Jason, Cindy, Brittany, Brad, Tyler, and Juana and I cleaned up the room and replaced the missing window with a pretty solid plywood barrier. You need to thank the Tituses for their hard work for you.

5. Nothing they took had any sort of serial number on it, so it is doubtful that we will ever find out who they were. They ignored a posted security system sticker and box (which hasn't worked in many years), they took soda, and they also thought to put an "f you" on our white board and some professional wrestlers in the we love brach club, so the police think it was a pretty young thief or thieves.

6. We will certainly take some steps to make sure this doesn't happen again. I am glad that we didn't have very much that was worth stealing, I am glad that no one was around when the room was broken into, and I hope that we would respond with grace and not anger. It's just stuff, and I see it as a good reminder that our treasures aren't anything of this world that someone can take.

7. I have placed "our thirsty friends" on the prayer wall. Again, I believe it's so important that we respond to something like this with grace rather than anger. It's my hope that the walls in our youth room and our lack of anything too valuable was a testament to the God that we as a group serve.

ben p

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