God Had to Do This
Apr 12th, 2008 by cgrant1216
Throughout the existence of our ministry we have prayed that whenever the Lord put us into a permanent facility that it would happen in such a way that those who hear the story would have to say that only God could do that. He started answering that in November of 2007. After church one Sunday a man pulled into the parking lot and wanted to talk. He attended a church two miles down the road that had been struggling. They had a faithful group of people but were in need of a pastor. After talking we both decided to pray and talk again.
There were some issues that had to be resolved. They were a part of the SBC and there was a problem with the property deed. The first issue was easy. They voted to pull out of the convention and to merge with us. They started meeting with us in December and wanted us to meet at their church but we believed the issue of the deed had to be resolved first.
After much prayer and seeking legal advice we were prepared to make an offer to buy out of the reversionary clause. According to the original deed the property would revert back to the original owner if it ever ceased to be used for a church. We were apprehensive about this. We still don’t know how but the donor got our contact information and made us an offer of $60,000. We had planned on offering more. Needless to say, we accepted. We now have a building and 2.6 acres of property. Another great blessing is that during the process of crafting the new deed our property was appraised at just over $1 million.
We had our first service in our new building the end of January and our building dedication on February 24th.
