Recently, when Pastor Moonsook Kim noticed graffiti on the garage of the parsonage of the United Methodist Church of Richmond Hill, she was “shocked.”
“On Wednesday [September 24], when I came out of the parsonage I didn’t notice anything,” she said, guessing that the graffiti vandal(s) must have struck in the early morning hours of Thursday, September 25.
In her three years as pastor of the church, she said, this was the first time she has seen graffiti on the grounds.
“At first I was astonished,” Kim admitted, adding, “I never thought that this would happen to the church parsonage.”
The city has been contacted, she said, and crews will paint over the vandalism, but “we’re waiting.”
As a woman of the cloth, Kim told The Courier, “Maybe [the vandal(s)] didn’t know what the parsonage is. I hope and pray that if he knows he is in a sacred area, he won’t do it again. I’d like to tell him about the love of Jesus so he stops doing it.”