Pastor Corey Brooks calls church burglary politically motivated (Chicago black pastor supported GOP)

wgntv ^ | 10/25/

[dennisw]

About $8,000 was discovered stolen from a donation box early Saturday following a burglary at New Beginnings Church on the South Side.

The incident was reported to police Saturday morning by a Church member. Today, Republican Candidate for governor Bruce Rauner expected to make an appearance at the church, as a show of support for Brooks.

Pastor Corey Brooks says he’s been a target- and has even received death threats – since endorsing Republicans Jim Oberweis & Bruce Rauner.

Brooks says he believes the break-in was politically motivated.

The glass collection box had been shattered and vandalized. The money was supposed to go towards the building of a community center across the street.

Pastor Brooks says he fears for his family’s safety he moved them out of their Woodlawn home.

[dennisw]

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/10/25/8000-stolen-from-chicago-church-in-break-in/

CHICAGO (CBS) —One of Bruce Rauner’s biggest backers in the African American Community says he’s being threatened for supporting the Republican.

CBS 2 ‘s Roseanne Tellez reports that at New Beginnings Church, members swept up broken glass after someone broke in the back door late Friday or early today.

Inside, they smashed this collection box, making off with an estimated $8,000, leaving only coins behind.

Pastor Corey Brooks got the call early and says the money was to be used for a new community center.

Pastor Brooks questions the timing of the break in, a day after he received threatening phone calls he says were linked to his support for Republican candidate for Governor Bruce Rauner.

Brooks says the threats contained derogatory slurs as well as death threats to himself and Rauner. He thinks the break-in and the calls, five in all, are connected.

“For our church to get broken into all of a sudden to me speaks volumes,” Brooks said.

Brooks says he can deal with people having different political views… but not when they threaten him

“Once you threaten my family, or my church, or people I am associated with, I take that very seriously,” Brooks said.

Pastor Brooks says he has temporarily moved out of his house as police investigate and try to trace the threatening phone calls.

[MuttTheHoople]

DemoKKKrats messing with black churches again.

[Old Yeller]

I’d say it just has to do with the location of the church.

[From The Deer Stand]

Is the church located in “the hood” which is the creation of the New Deal and Great Society - 40+ years of Democrat welfare that has kept blacks poor, dependent, and living in crime. Remember blacks, it was the Democrats who fought against civil rights.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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I'm going to send that pastor $ 50 ... who's gonna joing me ?

Address:
New Beginning Church of Chicago
6620 South King Drive
Chicago, Illinois

Corey Booker of West Point Church. (Photo: West Point Church)

A pastor, businessman, philanthropist, songwriter, mentor and spiritual coach, Pastor Corey B Brooks Sr. answered his call to the ministry at the age of 19 and received his first pastorship at the age of 23 at Mt. Moriah Church in Richmond, Indiana. At 27, he went on to pastor West Point Church in Chicago, Illinois, demonstrating an electrifying style of preaching and teaching that gave birth to a revolution four years later!

In November of 2000, Pastor Brooks founded New Beginnings Church of Chicago, an urban, non-denominational Purpose Driven Church in the inner city on Chicago’s south side. A visionary leader who is prolific in expository life-application preaching, Pastor Brooks’ simple yet profound messages of restoration and reconciliation have attracted over 2500 members.

Worshipping in a facility that houses a private Christian school (K-8th), state of the art music/dance studio and a fitness center, Pastor Brooks has become a millennium catalyst for social, spiritual and economic voids in Urban America.

With a vision to “Change people from Chicago, America and the World,” Pastor Brooks plans to plant one hundred churches over the next ten years and has already planted churches in Atlanta, GA. and Cape Town, South Africa.

A pastor to pastors, Pastor Brooks has ministered internationally in Asia, Africa, and South America; he is frequently called upon to teach church planting strategies, leadership and urban ministry development locally and nationally. Because of his success in urban ministry development, he has been deemed a “Hoodologist.” He has authored two books, “HOODology” (release date May, 2012) and “Committed” (release date November, 2012).

The International Bible Society recognized Pastor Brooks for successfully leading New Beginnings Church in a community outreach effort to spread the gospel by passing out over 50,000 bibles, with a goal of 1,000,000, to date over 100,000 have been distributed.

Pastor Corey B Brooks Sr. is a graduate of Ball State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and pledged Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. From Ball State, he began his theological education by attending the Dallas Theological Seminary before earning a Master of Arts in Ministry, with an emphasis on Preaching and Christian Education, at Grace Theological Seminary.

A devoted husband, Pastor Brooks is married to Delilah Brooks; they are the proud parents of four children: Kirsten, Desmond, Danielle and Corey Jr.

[ExCTCitizen]

Pastor Corey Brooks, you should never strayed from the plantation of the Dems. Don’t you know that Dems hate people who think for themselves?

[Bluestocking]

Will the courageous Pastor Brooks’s fellow Black pastors throughout the country speak out for him in solidarity? Or will they remain silent, while other Black voices like those of the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have the stage all to themselves as usual to foment riots when young Black thugs are killed by policemen trying to defend themselves?

[Westbrook]

I’m in for $25.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Having lived in suburban Chicago, a stone’s throw from Jeremiah Wright’s new home, I can throw the good Pastor $10 bucks, too.

Lloyd, can you maybe put together an Examiner article exposing these political dirty-tricks?

[aimhigh]

About $8,000 was discovered stolen from a donation box early Saturday

This doesn't smell right. How would he know how much was in the donation box? Were the donations counted and then put back in the box for storage? Assuming the donations were put in the prior Sunday, why were they still there? I've never seen a church that doesn't immediately deposit Sunday donations into their bank.