ICC Note: Last week, the pastor of Lake Bowen Baptist Church discovered that his church in South Carolina had been vandalized. Surveillance footage showed that two teenage boys were seen on the premises and the damage included knives stuck in the walls, food and drinks spilled on the floors, and lewd messages written in children’s classrooms. While the motive for the vandalism is unclear, police are currently investigating the incident.

04/08/2018 United States (Christian News Network) – Two teenage boys are believed to have vandalized a South Carolina church on Wednesday, smearing food throughout the kitchen and throwing knives into the wall.

“Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” Brad Atkins, the pastor of Lake Bowen Baptist Church, told WSPA-TV.

Atkins entered the church on Thursday to find chocolate sauce, caramel, jelly, sprinkles and snow cone syrup strewn all over the floors and walls in the kitchen. Dish soap had also been squeezed out.

“Every two liter drink we had, they dumped out [and] poured it on the floor,” Atkins explained.

There were also several knives stuck in the wall, with other holes that indicated that the vandals threw them numerous times, possibly having a knife-throwing contest.

Surveillance footage from Monday showed two teenage boys riding around inside the church on a buggy for children. That night, the teens also sprayed whipped cream both inside and outside the building, and they went into a classroom for children and wrote lewd words on the chalkboard.

Atkins believes that the same two boys came back on Wednesday night and committed a second round of vandalism. He said that the teens were likely on Spring Break, and lamented the kind of acts that youth commit when they are left to themselves.

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