First United Methodist Church of Wausau building. (Photo courtesy of WAOW-TV).
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) — A local church is helping out one of its neighbors after a vandalism act over the weekend.
Saturday night 38-year-old Adam Dupleasis broke into the Universalist Unitarian Church in Wausau and damaged the sanctuary. With the Universalist church closed for the next few weeks for repairs, Pastor Rebecca Voss at First United Methodist Church has offered her building to host its members. She tells WAOW-TV, “We know that our congregation is not simply for the people in the building but it is for the whole community, it’s for the greater group of the faithful in our city,”.
Voss hopes that her church’s sanctuary can help ease any fears Universalist congregation members may have. “There is safety here that this is a place of refuge, that this is a place where hopefully healing can happen, as whether it’s our friends at the Unitarian church or others in the community that have been through difficult times can find a place of rest and healing,”.
First United Methodist will host the Universalist Unitarian Church for the next two Sundays at 11 a.m. in their sanctuary. Dupleasis returns to court for his preliminary hearing next Wednesday.
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