On Christmas Eve someone broke into the apartment of an elderly member of Zion. June has been singing in the church choir for decades. To think she came home after singing “Silent Night” in candle light to find her door busted and signs that someone was looking for money and drugs – they stole her cough medicine.
This is a major security worry for June. Her neighborhood has been changing and it has been a rougher place to live. Then this last Friday night she heard a noise. She found a person trying to break through her kitchen window as he was tearing away the screen! It is not easy getting to sleep for June these January evenings.
She called me all upset on Saturday and in tears. Her land lord is not much help. He said he’d fix the screen in the Spring. Not much encouragement there. So I contacted John from our “Helping Hands” group at church and told him about the situation. He emailed me today that he and Jack are going over to the apartment of June’s this week to see what they need to do to secure the window and place a motion sensor which will sound off and scare the burglars away.
This is the church being the body of Christ and serving someone, a widow, in a very practical way. Cheers to the good guys from “Helping Hands” – John and Jack.
Amen! This is really great.
with infinite hope,Jim