Good Samaritans Restore Vandalized Sign

Ritu and Seadeep David woke up Saturday morning to find a Christian banner on their property vandalized.

They came home Sunday afternoon to find good Samaritans restoring it.

For months, The family had a huge banner stretched across the front of their property on Five Forks Trickum, a quotation from the Bible: "Jesus said: I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me shall live, even though he dies."

Ritu says the family came home "really late" Friday, and the sign was intact. When they woke up Saturday morning, the words "Jesus said" had been cut from the banner.

Sunday afternoon, Derek Sargent and Wendy Gates, who said they were both just passer-bys and didn't know each other before, were using black markers to put the missing words back into the sign. Youth from nearby Lucerne Baptist Church helped them.

"It really warms my heart," Ritu said after coming home Sunday to find the sign fixed.

The Davids are offering $100 and a "special, wrapped present" to the prepretrators if they come forward. The family won't prosecute, she said.

"Our pastor said, whoever did this really needs Jesus," Ritu said.