A Comforter to Come

Emmanuel Lutheran Church – Kingfisher, Oklahoma (in process)

(Wednesday, April 3, 2019 – Kingfisher Times & Free Press / Christine Reid

Despite the best efforts of his parents and professional counselors, the little boy remained mute in the weeks after a gunman shot up his classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 of his classmates.

That is, until a visit from a big, gentle golden retriever working as a comfort dog for the Lutheran Church Charities K-9 Comfort Dog Ministry, one of several comfort dogs deployed on the school campus in the weeks following the tragedy.

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