ELGIN, S.C. — "Please return it, please return it," said co-pastor Willie Taylor.
Thieves targeted Miracle Deliverance Outreach Ministry in Elgin on June 19.
The church community was devastated when they arrived at the church to realize their large pull-behind grill had been stolen from their backyard.
"We do cooking for the needy. We do outreach here, and it was a little devastating," said the co-pastor.
Surveillance footage from the church captured the two men using bolt cutters to cut the fence to come in and steal the grill.
"When you look at the video, it's as though they owned the property, they walked from the front to the back, in the middle of the day, as if they own the property," Taylor says.
Taylor says his deep disappointment that someone would be willing to steal from the grounds of a church, "I just felt like there is no fear of God anymore, or for the church."
His message to the criminals is one from the scriptures, "You will reap what you sow, What you do whatever you do unto others it will be done to you, so please return the grill."
On Friday, investigators with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department say they arrested one of the men involved. Michael L. Smith, 54, was booked into the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on charges of grand larceny ($2,000 or more).
Investigators are still working to identify the other suspect and recover the grill.
If you have any information about the theft, please call Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.
Richland County Sheriff's Department continues to investigate and encourages anyone with additional information to come forward.