A Kearney, Mo., church offered to pay more for a building permit after the city sent them an ominous bill for $666.
Although Brett Toole, pastor of the Crossroads Community Church, which received the bill, and officials in the buildings section at Kearney’s City Hall discussed the matter in a lighthearted exchange, the bill was later changed to a less ominous $667 and Pastor Toole used the opportunity to discuss the significance of the number “666” in biblical lore.
Toole explained that around the same time he was responding to the city requesting to pay more in jest to avoid the traditionally dreaded number, the city was also reaching out to apologize for the total.