Tuesday, February 17, 2009

How you can pray!

Well, as if coming we haven't had enough excitement in the last few hours with picking up and seeing family, coming home and finding our screens tore up and things stolen; we were woke up this morning at 4:30 a.m. by the groundskeeper screaming at our door that the camp had been broken into at 4 a.m. Ken went to the camp and everyone is fine, in fact, as of this moment they are just waking up and may not even know all of what on early this morning. The police were summoned to the camp by the groundskeeper when a neighbor going to work at 4 a.m. saw someone leaving the campground with a huge garbage bag full of stuff. When screamed at, the man dropped the bag up the road in front of his own home, and took off in his car, but the neighbor and the groundskeeper both got a good look at the man. The police did a full report at the camp of the kitchen which we are unable to use this morning to have the camp cook prepare their breakfast due to the damage. The guy helped himself to some of the team's food that we purchased for them, drinking milk from cartons, cutting into a pineapple, opening a jar of peanut butter and eating from it with his hands. Plenty of fingerprint evidence in there! From there, the police came to our home and did a full report. They retrieved the bag and found two rice cookers, a huge electric griddle and other kitchen items from the camp kitchen, but also found a pair of our sneakers in the bag too. They have not found the camp camera, yet. So, they believe the person they are looking for in both incidences is the same person. While leaving our home, the police heard screams from a gentleman up the road pointing out that the man was trying to return to his home where he dropped his bag of goods. A pursuit ensued on foot by the police into the coffee plantation on the opposite side of the road as the camp, but they were never able to catch the man. Ken and the groundskeeper are now on their way to file a police report; the camp cook is with Katherine buying plastic bowls, cereal and milk for the team for breakfast and David & I will have to do orientation. At least we are all safe!

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