Air Conditioners Stolen from Tennessee Churches

Thieves have been stealing central air conditioning units from rural Tennessee churches during a scorching summer heat wave, and they’ll face hell fire for eternity if they’re not caught here on earth, a church official said on Tuesday. "How would you say ’I stole your air-conditioners’ to Jesus? He’s the almighty," said Bill Casteel, an elder at Union Grove Church of Christ in Cleveland in southeast Tennessee. Three units, worth $9,000, were stolen from Casteel’s church, said Bob Gault, spokesman for the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office. Other units worth thousands of dollars each were taken from Cedar Springs Baptist Church and Thompson Springs Baptist Church in the same town.