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Pastor says he subdued church burglar, then prayed

Lamb's Chapel's lead pastor, Mike Jankowski, describes how

Lamb's Chapel's lead pastor, Mike Jankowski, describes how he captured a burglar who was ransacking the church offices. Videojournalist: Ed Betz (March 8, 2013) (March 8, 2013 7:50 PM)

A Center Moriches pastor in the middle of a weeklong fast prayed for two things as he struggled with a burglar: strength to hold the man for police, and divine help for someone desperate enough to steal from a church.

"I'm not sure if the police are coming or not, so I just started to tell him we loved him and God loved him," Pastor Michael Jankowski of Lamb's Chapel on Frowein Road recalled...

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