Men for Missions Freedom Baptist Church, Greenville, SC Pastor Don Ball

There were always unexpected or forgotten requirements that were brought to our attention, but God always supplied for each of these.  Sometime in the fall of 2000, home school friends allowed us to dismantle an old deck off their home and gave us the lumber. Following God's example, who rearranges molecules to His purposes (Isaiah 65:17), we took this lumber and fashioned a covered deck on the back of the church required to provide an escape from the upstairs auditorium to the outside. Often this was the Lord’s way of providing, either with lower prices or a different method of installation, or a gift of materials from others.

Work Completed by Men for Missions Ceiling Grid and tile purchased and installed in Auditorium; Drywall purchased and installed in Fellowship Hall

Meanwhile, Pastor Miller continued to generate appeal letters from his office PC computer printer(s) and God continued to work. In May of 2001, Target America, a ministry of the Freedom Baptist Church in Greenville, SC, offered to purchase and install the ceiling tile (almost $2,800) which was stretched because the Lord provided a much discounted price on the materials ($1.64/tile for $.49) for the new auditorium and install the drywall which had been provided by an earlier gift for the basement.  The six men actually arrived Saturday, May 19 at 12:45 p.m.  Some of our men had already moved the delivered drywall into the building for installation and after an initial survey by the volunteers the work was begun immediately.

July 6, 2001, we sold the pews from the downstairs auditorium to the Lutheran Church in Boulder, MT.  We received $1950, and after paying $250 to the man who had found the buyer, we used the remaining  funds to purchase and install an electrical entrance box for the new building, an issue over which the Church had split years earlier because money designated for that purpose had been spent otherwise.  By November, probably 15 years later, the installation would be accomplished and God could move us to another level of the completion process.  We could now pray about furnaces, which would open the way for finishing the lighting and installing the plumbing.

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