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HOW TO HELP• Donations can be deposited at any Suntrust Bank location to a special fund for the church. Just ask the bank to deposit your donation into the “Donation Fund for Valley Memorial Baptist” and give this account number: 1000178850060.• Or mail to: Valley Memorial Baptist Church, 614 Browns Ferry Road, Chattanooga, TN, 37419• Phone: 423-821-5499Source: Valley Memorial Baptist Church
The children’s playroom was vandalized at Valley Memorial Baptist Church.Shards of broken glass crunched under Dorothy Woody’s feet as she walked from room to room in Valley Memorial Baptist Church on Monday.
Vandals tore through the small church on Browns Ferry Road sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning. The vandal or vandals used something — a hatchet, or maybe an ax — to rip holes in the walls, smash furniture to pieces, overturn pews and pull a water fountain off the wall, flooding parts of the church.
Woody toured the damage for about 20 minutes Monday. Craft supplies scattered in the children’s room. A urinal ripped out of the wall in the men’s bathroom. Books and framed diplomas crushed in the pastor’s study. A locked wooden box full of private prayer requests pried open and searched. Pages from hymnals ripped out and strewn about.
“It’s just shocking,” she said.