From Georgia-Parishioners of the Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church on Walton Way were reunited Sunday with their missing Jesus statue. The 4-foot resin statue, worth about $5,000, disappeared last March during Holy Week.
The Rev. Robert Fain, the church’s senior pastor, said the statue was returned by the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office after deputies found it propped up against a tree among other abandoned items behind a McDowell Street home.
The garments on the statue are damaged, its hands have been painted purple and some fingers are chopped off, but Fain said the church plans to hang the artwork as it is, at least for now.
“Jesus came to make things right between God and mankind everywhere,” Fain said. “With the statue being returned in a marred state, it kind of resembles our responsibility to God, and how much he loves us and is willing to endure for our imperfections.”
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http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2014-01-14/missing-jesus-statue-returned-church?v=1389725462
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