From The New York Times-
When the congregation of All Saints’ Episcopal Church on Chicago’s North Side convened for the early worship service on Sunday, photocopies of a column I had written, about a weekly food pantry at the church, were placed on an entryway table.
In the back of the sanctuary were a broken 3-inch-by-3-inch pane of stained glass and damp wooden floorboards.
The column discussed chagrin among some neighbors in the well-heeled area around the pantry, which now draws about 350 people each Tuesday night. It concluded that volunteering might keep “fellow citizens from drowning.”
At 8 a.m. the day after it was published, a carpenter working inside the church found a garden hose jammed through the broken window and several inches of water in the back of the sanctuary. The hose had been on for hours.
He called his boss, a contractor overseeing work on other stained-glass windows in the church. With the pastor out of town, nobody would have discovered the water damage for quite a while.
More here-
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/us/27cncwarren.html
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