Burglar vandalizes local church

Multiple windows inside and out were busted at The McCarthy Baptist Church Friday morning, the pastor has filed a police report.

The mccarthy baptist church was unexpectedly busy this weekend and not for a good reason.

We vistied the church today after someone left its members picking up the pieces.

<<ron johnson reporting a scary end to the week for one local church.early friday morning about 2:15, an individual broke into our church building, took some items and did quite a bit of damage, quite a bit of vandalism.the mccarthy baptist church was the scene of a burglary friday morning the church's pastor says one man was able to break-in bust several windows and vandalize property.

He said a secretary coming into to work later that morning noticed something was out of place.she noticed a box in the hallway she knew something was wrong so she immediately called me let me know something was going on then she contacted her pastor at that point we exited the building called the police immediately they swept the building to make sure no one was still in the building.

The pastor say the experience has been an emotional roller coaster you get the fear you get the anger the confusion and the sadness as well that someone would do that to another church.

It was a shock to the wider church community in st.

Joseph as welli've never seen anything like it they say word of the damage quickly spread on social media, and it became clear they had to respond.

Once we heard, that's when we all decided it's time to engage and help.

Saturday morning several churches across st.

Joe and beyond stepped in to help clean up, mostly vacuuming up small pieces of glass the burglar left behind.

While he did get away, the pastor says he was caught on surveillance footage, and they've been able to recover some stolen items. true to his faith, the pastor says he has a message for the burglarwe do forgive this individual and pray that he would come to repentance.>> the pastor says he did file a