...Hammer and Nails...

Soooooooo, it all began around 11pm this evening...

I was chatting on my computer when I needed some water...and off I went to get some water from my kitchen.

Suddenly I noticed the 2nd floor hall lights in the church turned on, which I thought was strange b/c I made sure I turned them off earlier on in the evening!

...hmmmmmm...

All of a sudden this light comes on in the attic roof like up on the roof, where the door is on the church roof...2 stories above ground level.

And the light is on for like 20 minutes which was strange b/c it definitely wasn't on last nite!

So i called our associate pastor who lives right behind me and in turn called the senior pastor who lives right across the road from me. We have been having problems with people coming into the church buildings and things going missing and we had a lot of difficulty this time last year with destructive damage being caused.

...So valid suspicions you might add...

So the Senior Pastor came over and we had a look at the lights from my house and we're looking thinking somebody is camping the nite up there or somebody is up there looking for something to take!

...When all of a sudden the light goes off... remember now...this is the attic light above the church offices! Not controlled by any other main light switches.

OK...so we're thinking somebody is definitely up there now...

CALL THE POLICE - 911 - 5 minutes later they show up

We watched to made sure nobody left the exits whilst he waited for backup and when it came we proceeded to enter the church.

SO, we go into the church... myself opening the door, 2 cops and the senior pastor. Senior Pastor goes to check the office doors are locked still and i went upstairs to check the attic light with the 2 police officers.We checked our church preschool was all locked up and the other 2nd floor rooms before looking up at the attic trap door...

...all of a sudden the church organ starts playing...

...and at this point there is like little light in the sanctuary...

SO WE RAN TO THE SANCTUARY... the cops and i ran to the sanctuary... police guys went downstairs and ran in with their guns out... I followed the 2^nd cop…and Senior Pastor comes in the back doors from the offices...

...next thing there is a guy at the organ and another in the middle of the sanctuary with their hands up...

CAUGHT RED-HANDED!!

Or so you would think

...IF they wherent meant to be there tuning the organ, bc it takes 10 hours to tune...and b/c some pipes can only be accessed from the attic!! So we managed to catch our organ tuners...red handed...doing the job we pay them to do...

Thankfully the Cops found it amusing as well and the Senior Pastor and I are still crying from laughing soo much...it was like a horror movie... going around this dark church when suddenly the organ begins to play...

The church is safe for another night! No need to thank us...all in a nights work! :)