Thieves Steal AC Units from Church

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- An Arlington church is left without air-conditioning after the church's three AC units were stolen.

The Redeemed Christian Church is a small church in Arlington off Cesery Blvd. A church that stands by the spirit of giving, but sometime between Wednesday evening and Saturday night, someone took too much.

"I'm still shocked," said Joke Badewa.

Badewa has gone to the church for the four years. She says Saturday evening, in the middle of choir practice, it started getting hot inside the church.

Badewa says they tried turning the air-conditioning on, but it wasn't working. As a last resort, she went outside to check the air-conditioning units behind the church.

That is when Badewa found three empty slabs of concrete and wires hanging from the wall.

"I'm like who could have done this," she said.

According to the police report, the units were worth 6 thousand dollars.

"I believe people should give to the church not take from it," said Badewa.