Broken Glass

The break-ins that took place late this summer is a gift that just keeps giving. We have finally finished up with all the window repairs that needed to take place to remediate the damage that

was done. We needed some special kinds of glass because we are a public facility and the glass was in many cases in office doors. That is a good thing: it helps make our church safer with an "open door" counseling committment. However, doors also require special tempered glass to be safe. Such glass breaks into little pebbles of glass rather than saber sharp shards of glass.

Some of our new best friends are the fellows at Rock Island Glass Company. They were prompt in helping secure the building and ordered and installed the glass we needed. The made the critical repairs immediately and some of the less critical ones they did over a period of time. We were grateful for their good work. I think the final outcome was sixteen panes of glass and over $2000 in expense. The amount of glass damage was almost as much as the value of the stolen articles.

(Of course, there was also the expense of the professional clean up when toner from the copy machine was thrown around the office, and also the hours and hours of work lost when the computers were taken.)

It is sometimes difficult to keep a positive attitude when I think about the damage done and the ego-centric attitude that a person must have to attack the house of God and do damage to door after door to steal things for personal gain. This is a living out of the attitude that its-all-about-me.

What we really need now is a patient painter and repair person to touch up the trim and paint on the doors that have had panes of glass replaced. Are you that person? Let me know.