SPOKANE -- Police are on the lookout for the thief who stole a woman’s power wheelchair while she was praying inside the Church of Berachah Tuesday afternoon.

Sylvia Tribble, who suffers from cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis, was inside the church located at the intersection of Sharp and Cochran around 1:30 Tuesday.

She has been parking her chair near the front stairs for the last year and parishioners help her walk up the stairs and inside the church for her prayer group.

This last Tuesday when prayer group ended the assistant pastor went to get her chair and it was gone. Tribble said she’s still in disbelief that someone would steal her chair.

“Me and my pastor prayed and the first thing that came to me. I prayed that whoever sit in the chair they get a hunger for God, a real hunger for God because it has to be heart condition for someone to take someone's power chair so their heart needs to be fixed," she said.

Tribble filed a police report and made some flyers offering a $25 reward for anyone who returns the chair, which is worth about $5,000.

The chair is described as being black with forest green on the bottom and was made by Invacare.

Tribble is waiting to find out if Medicaid will replace the chair.