Aug 25, 2026 · 3 hr · 33 segments
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Steal furniture, almost lose your job.
The tenants that lived there were, for the most part, decent people who my dad thought were trustworthy.
That all changed about two months into the tenancy when the tenant refused to pay the month's rents.
My dad showed some leniency and gave them another month to pay up what was owed, but they didn't pay a thing.
By this point, my dad, frustrated by the whole situation and being two months out of rent money, offered them a deal.
Leave the house ASAP, and then only pay half the money owed.
They countered with a different agreement.
They would leave the house in a clean state with all of their furniture left behind as compensation.
The two sofas that my dad owned were left behind, but they were trashed and left in the shed.
When my dad confronted them asking for them to pay up the full amount that the furniture was worth, he was met with the promise of payment after two weeks, which he didn't believe.
And when he requested they pay earlier, he was met with, "Good luck getting your money," followed by laughing emojis.
My dad contacted the church and explained everything, from how they hadn't paid him rent money to stealing the furniture and trashing the place.
The church was somewhat interested about this behavior.
The next day, my dad gets an angry phone call from the tenant's son, cursing at him, asking him what he thought he was doing contacting the church, saying he was being unfair.
From what we could piece together, the church had told the pastor that if he didn't settle things with my dad, him and his son would lose their jobs.
My dad received the full amount for the furniture that same day and agreed to back off.
My dad later said it was never about the money, but the way this guy treated him and his values.
There we go, a nice little one to finish on there.
I, I do have to say that, that it's embarrassing that, um, you know, these healthy, you know, Christian people who work for the church have this attitude.
Does that not go exactly against what they're preaching? Surely it does.
Like, how can they go to work each day? Like, you're, you're a pastor.
A pastor, a pastor, and, and you are going to work each day preaching, knowing that you're doing this at the same time.
How can you live with yourself? I think it's kind of people like this sometimes that, that give not just, not just the church, not just the Christian church, but just religion in general, a bad name, when in reality, it's just these horrible individuals doing things.
But then you hear stories like this quite often, and you're just like, "Why? How can somebody be in this position and, and do something like this?" But I guess it happens, it happens all over the world in, in every single sector.
But yeah, normally, like, I thought that the church would, would usually pay for their residents, but I don't know.
Maybe, maybe they weren't, or maybe they were, and these two were just, you know, pocketing that and then just, yeah, using it for whatever they wanted.
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