Melbourne Church Suffers Three Break-Ins, Music Equipment Stolen, Bibles Torched By Perpetrators

By  //  February 10, 2017

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ABOVE VIDEO: The pastor of Soul’s Harbor Community Church in Melbourne is heartbroken. It was Sunday morning, just before church, when Pastor Dale Rhodes found a hole which burglars had smashed into the wall.

BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA (FOX 35) – The pastor of Soul’s Harbor Community Church in Melbourne is heartbroken. It was Sunday morning, just before church, when Pastor Dale Rhodes found a hole which burglars had smashed into the wall.

Stolen from the church were thousands of dollars of musical instruments and audio equipment. Police were called and recovered some of it from behind the church.

“We were really happy about that,” the pastor said.

Police say the thieves broke in again on two different occasions — the second time, using keys they apparently stole from the first break-in.

“I was a little bit angry about it at that point,” said Rhodes. “Unfortunately, the third time they literally ripped the plywood back off the wall … then they made the hole bigger and crawled back through.”

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