In the meantime, a group from Rural Hall, NC (Craftsmen for Christ) had volunteered to bring out and install furnaces which we had ordered through one of their volunteers.  They were to arrive on September 7, 2003.

This would be the closest we had ever come to using credit at all.  One of the brothers put the furnaces on his charge card in order to bring them out.  We weren’t sure we even had the money to install the furnaces when they got here let alone Pay for them.  So we had to Pray for them.  But God provided wondrously. On Sunday August 31 a $600 gift had come in towards the installation. Another gift for this project came from a man who had visited the church, heard about our dilemma and, unknown to any of us, had told the Lord that if He would help him sell his pick-up he would give the church $1,000.  A couple weeks later he came to Dick, right before the Craftsmen for Christ arrived, and made good on his promise to the Lord, giving Dick a check for $1,000 from the sale of his truck. A large gift of $2000 had arrived  in September of 2002 from friends of Grace Baptist Church in Oklahoma.  And again, before Craftsmen for Christ got here, a $400 gift raised by BIMI USA director John Bailes came.

Though we couldn’t pay them entirely when they left, we were able to give them a good chunk of the cost and the installation expense was met.  Then on September 18 we wrote a huge thanks by e-mail
to friends in Kansas who had received our flare prayer letter.  In return they had sent us $1500 which, according to the e-mail
, paid off the furnace debt.  Praise God, since the $600 for that project that had come in on the previous Sunday  would have to go towards repairing or replacing the remaining furnaces in the old building as a result of the inspection.  On Monday, September 22, yet another $100 came in from a church in Eclectic, AL who had supported the Millers in years past.

Yet another Divine Provision came out of this matter.  After the Craftsmen for Christ had left, when the city inspector came out to check the newly installed gas lines for the four furnaces in the new building, he asked for our mechanical permit.  Dick was honest when he told him he was not aware that one was necessary.  In obedience, we had the plumbing and heating fellow that was working with us (a man Dick had led to the Lord in the County jail), have his employer start the necessary measures to obtain said permit.  As it turned out, you had to have a valid building permit (which we still did) and as best as we could tell, the mechanical permit also extended the life of the valid building permit.  Later research never revealed how or if a permit could expire.  As best as we could tell from the Codes, both local and national, the permit could not expire as long as work was in progress and inspections being carried out. THE DEADLINE WOULD PASS AND THE PERMIT WOULD BE VALID!!  This was an example of God’s provision revealed in His Word: “It’s not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, sayeth the Lord.”

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