LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - Stealing from charity - it's hard to believe anyone would do that, but it happened at a church in Lehigh Acres. The Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church helps out struggling residents every week, but Friday morning, it was a lot harder to do that.

The church does something called 'free bread day' for those in need every Friday morning. Thursday night, the trailer the donated bread is loaded into went missing.

Chuck Emery volunteers at the church and is in charge of towing the trailer. Around 7:00 Thursday night, he noticed the trailer was missing from it's usual spot across the street.

"I thought I was dreaming," Emery said. "I thought this can't be. Who would steal the church's bread trailer? I was devastated. I just couldn't believe it."

"I can't imagine what they need it for," Jim Kreger said.

Jim Kreger said without the bread truck, it's going to be difficult to give bread to the hundreds of people who line up every week.

"Without our trailer, it's going to make a little handicap on us to get enough bread to bring out here," Kreger said.

The trailer is easy to spot. It has "Faith Lutheran Mission Trip 2003" written on each side. It has 112 empty black bread trays inside. Emery said the trays are worth 1,300 dollars and the trailer is 4,000 dollars.

"It's not going to be an easy replacement. Certainly, the church doesn't have the money to replace it," Emery said.

Usually, volunteers take the truck to a local bakery and load up on day-old bread. Now, people are using their own vehicles to ride into Fort Myers and pick the bread up themselves, but there's just not enough room for all of it.

"Today, we didn't have the trailer," Emery said. "We didn't have the bread trays, so basically what we had to do was dump bread into the back of the pickup truck."

If you have any information about this missing trailer, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS.