Security Company Sacked

Sue says:

You may remember that I mentioned earlier that I wasn't feeling secure on our campus (Saturday, October 3). Other women in our neighborhood had experienced beggars coming to their doors in the middle of the day when our husbands weren't home. One guy even came right into the faculty building using veiled threats to get people donate to his "medical" fund. We had had things stolen right off our porch too.

To the credit of our management team, when these things were reported to them, such activity stopped. Probably a guard was posted at our back gate so people couldn't just get onto campus unnoticed.

About a week ago, a story circulated that some of the security guards themselves were involved in the stealing of our chickens. Large numbers of chickens with a possible value of tens of thousands of US dollars. There must have been some truth to the allegations because the police were seen on campus right after that.

Last Friday the old security guards all were fired and a new company's guards are here. We know some of the old guards were faithful and honest. It is a shame they had to be released too. We hope they will soon be assigned somewhere else. This is, we think, the third guard company since we have been here. The others were dismissed for the same reasons.

It's sad that the work of the Lord is impeded in this fashion, but the atmosphere is the same all over the country. We will start fresh now with high hopes for a more secure environment.