An “interesting” thing happened this afternoon. I was sitting in my office when I noticed someone on a bicycle ride in front of the church. I heard the front door opening, but was on the phone so it took me about 30 seconds to get off the phone and go see who it was and how I could help them. Well, I couldn’t find anyone. I looked in the daycare, the lounge, the bathrooms and even the sanctuary. Whoever it was had disappeared, or so I thought. I saw that their bike was still out front so I knew they had to be in the church somewhere and this is where it got interesting.
I walked back into the sanctuary to turn the lights on and have a look around and a homeless man popped his head up from behind our sound booth. He quickly ran around the booth and out into the foyer of the church. I stopped him and asked him what he was doing back there and he said “oh, nothing, just putting my backpack down.” Well, that was a half-truth…
I walked behind the sound booth to find the church’s laptop computer disconnected and laying on the floor right where he had been 15 seconds earlier. Basically he was going to walk into a church in broad daylight (during Passion
week, none-the-less) and steal our laptop computer…and then lie to the pastor about it!
I confronted him about it and he said he just “needed money for a bus pass”. I told him the only thing I was going to offer him was 30 second to get out before I called the cops. So he left with me walking right behind him until he was completely out of sight.
I guess that’s just another day in the lift of a Pastor?
