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Letters from church meant to bring comfort |
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
By KAREN CAMPBELL
Staff Writer
Several residents have reported receiving odd letters in the mail recently from an unfamiliar Wapakoneta address.
The return address on the letters came back to the Church of Jehovah’s Witnesses, 916 W. Plum St., but a representative of the church said it was members of the congregation, not the church itself, who sent the letters, Sheriff Al Solomon said.
Solomon said in follow-up investigations by Deputy Sgt. Tom Keckler to a concern brought to the Sheriff’s Office last week, the representative of the church said the individual members of the church sent the letters as a means of comfort on readings from the Bible and to offer hope about various situations in life, such as death.
After an article appeared in the Wapakoneta Daily News on Tuesday, additional county residents came forward saying they also had received strange letters that referenced the Bible and death.
“Some of them were not appreciated by the people who received them,” Solomon said Thursday. “Our main concern was that there wasn’t any type of threat involved in the letters. There doesn’t appear to be anything of that regard involved.”
The sheriff said leaders of the church invited anyone with questions about the letters to call them. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 June 2008 )
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