JULY 26, 2014
Thieves have been stealing central air conditioning units from rural Tennessee churches during a scorching summer heat wave, and they will face hell fire for eternity if they are not caught here on earth, a church official has said.
“How would you say, ‘I stole your air-conditioners’ to Jesus? He’s the almighty,” said an elder at Union Grove Church of Christ in Cleveland in southeast Tennessee, Bill Casteel.
Three units, worth $9,000, were stolen from Casteel’s church, said the spokesman for the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office, Bob Gault. Other units worth thousands of dollars each were taken from Cedar Springs Baptist Church and Thompson Springs Baptist Church in the same town.
Gault said the units were stolen from the churches between July 13 and July 18, adding that thieves generally were looking for scrap metal and copper. He said his office deals with such thefts weekly, but rarely from a church.
The thieves left a single unit at Union Grove Church, enabling the congregation to hold services in the still cooled auditorium, but limiting use of other sections of the building as Tennessee bakes in the low-90s. Casteel figured the unit was probably too heavy.
“They either got scared or their truck was all filled up,” said Casteel.
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