A pastor from Akron, Ohio just put up a brutal message on his church’s sign after thieves stole his house of worship’s air conditioner.

Pastor Gus Brown of Akron Alliance Fellowship Church said that three weeks ago, he noticed something was missing when he arrived at the church. Much to his dismay, the church’s recently purchased air conditioning unit was gone.

“It was a brand new unit that we had just put in. We hadn’t even made the first payment on it yet, it had only been in a few days,” Brown said.

He added that the unit cost the church about $3,500. He called the police as soon as he saw it was missing.

“They cut the wires nicely, they cut the tubing with a tubing cutter,” Brown said. “They had to know what they were doing. It had to be at least two, because one person would not have been able to pick it up.”

Afterwards, the pastor put a sobering message for the thieves on the sign outside the church.

“Whoever stole our AC unit – Keep it. ‘Its hot where your going,’” the sign read.

“It was a brand new unit that we had just put in. We hadn’t even made the first payment on it yet, it had only been in a few days.” https://t.co/H0xpzJXjvj

— WHNT (@whnt) September 19, 2019

Brown went on to say that while he is saddened by the loss, he hopes those who took the unit will turn their lives around and come visit the church in the near future.

“You are wrong and staying on this path will only get you one place,” the pastor said. “And we don’t want you to go there. Our desire is to even see him at our church one day.”

“You need to turn around. You need to repent,” he continued. “You need to recognize that you’re hurting yourself because you’re not going to wind up just before a judge here on earth, but you’re going to wind up before the Judge of judges and he’ll hold you accountable.”

Though temperatures are going to be hot this weekend, the church will still have Bible study and regular services. The congregation is reportedly planning on taking up a special offering this Sunday to raise money for another air conditioning unit.

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