Tennessee Church Seeks Justice After Elderly Member is Robbed During Prayer
When Pastor Larry D. Robertson got up to address his congregants at a Wednesday evening prayer and Bible study meeting nearly two weeks ago, he was mad.
“I ask your forgiveness for being a few minutes late,” Robertson, the senior pastor of Hilldale Baptist Church in Clarksville, Tennessee, said as he spoke to the congregation, which can be seen in a video posted on YouTube. “We’ve had an issue and I am, I’m just gonna tell you right now, I’m mad. I’m ticked. I’m a pretty even keel guy, so I don’t break things when I’m mad. I don’t scream, cuss, anything like that, but I’m very angry.”
Robertson then recounted how two African American women had arrived early at the diverse but predominantly white church to attend their 6:30 p.m. service on Feb. 9 but ended up robbing a 78-year-old congregant as she prayed for them.
“We had a couple of women who came at about 5:40 and said they thought the service started at 6 p.m. and I directed them in this direction (the sanctuary),” Robertson said. “One of our ladies came early and was here. And long story short, they stole, they robbed her.”
The robbery, which was caught on the church’s security cameras and posted on YouTube, shows one of the young women asking the elderly member for prayer. As soon as she engaged the church member, the accomplice began rifling through the elderly woman’s purse.
Story By Leonardo Blair, Senior Features Reporter for The Christian Post.
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