{"id":583384,"date":"2017-02-01T08:57:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=583384"},"modified":"2017-02-02T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T20:26:55","slug":"local-church-vandalized-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=583384","title":{"rendered":"Local Church Vandalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/police-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/police-9-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-583385\" \/><\/a>CHEROKEE COUNTY &#8212; The Cherokee County Sheriffs Department is investigating vandalism at a church a few miles west of Alto. According to KETK, it happened last weekend at Saint Thomas AME Church Sunday morning. &#8220;I saw this fire across campus there,&#8221; said Larry Jenkins, a deacon at St. Thomas. &#8220;I was wondering what was going on and I got out of the car and proceeded up to the door to unlock the door like I usually do and heard a noise.&#8221; Jenkins then discovered a water pipe had been busted and water was running out. When he entered the church, he saw broken glass on the floor and a large rock. Despite the damage church members were unfazed by the damage. &#8220;My thought is that whoever did it we pray for them and go on because we had good church Sunday morning after we found out everything that came down,&#8221; said Jenkins.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why it happened but we have to be strong in The Lord and pray for those that do stuff like this. we can hold, like say, a vengeance towards them or whatever, we can&#8217;t do that. If we say we&#8217;re Christians then we&#8217;ve got to act as Christians so you&#8217;ve got to love your enemy regardless of who they are or where they come from you still got to love them.&#8221; He added it could have been worse and he believes God is always looking out for the churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEROKEE COUNTY &#8212; The Cherokee County Sheriffs Department is investigating vandalism at a church a few miles west of Alto. According to KETK, it happened last weekend at Saint Thomas AME Church Sunday morning. &#8220;I saw this fire across campus there,&#8221; said Larry Jenkins, a deacon at St. Thomas. &#8220;I was wondering what was going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=583384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local Church Vandalized<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":583385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 16:00:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583387,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583384\/revisions\/583387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/583385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}