Saturday, July 20, 2002, the arrival of the cook and her husband from The Friendship Baptist Church, Men for Missions group of Raleigh, NC began a blessed week.  Next arrived the painter on a later flight and then on Sunday a whole bus load of men came in prepared to work. Also flying in was a young Bible College student, Clifton Roth of Hixson, TN, whose desire was to survey the west as a possible place of ministry and to add to add his hands to the work.  The Lord also provided a veteran concrete finisher who Dick had led to the Lord at the jail.  Mark Rioux was a blessing to those he led in the work and was blessed by those he roomed with for several nights.  Hence, concrete walkways were laid all around the building.  We marveled as we later walked all the way around and took in the crisp clean paint job.  A butter cream had replaced the institutional tan and had literally caused some who passed by daily to pull off or veer off the road as they watched the change.  A couple of neighbors even stopped by to pay their compliments.  Two signs now graced either end of the building also.  Inside, various and sundry things had been accomplished as individuals went about painting doors and replacing florescent  lights.  The workers delighted in the desk that they built into Pastor Miller’s new office upstairs.  The younger members of this team moved all of Dick’s books up there from his downstairs office.  Truly a great joy welled up in us at God’s goodness and kindness demonstrated by this group.  Their departure was well watered with tears of joy and gratitude.

October 8, 2002, we received a gift of $5000 from a Texan friend.  This was designated for the wheelchair lift, bringing the total in that fund to $7000 as another $2000 had come in earlier that summer.  When we received it, we were tempted to order the wheelchair lift and presume upon the Lord for the remaining $4000.  We were so glad that we did not as God still had more surprises for us on that matter.  He provided in His way. 

One of God’s provisions has been generous and patient acquaintances who have not hung up on  “Moocher Miller” when he called up and said “Do you have…?  Can I borrow…?”  God has used these generous ones to save this project probably hundreds if not thousands of dollars: spray painters, a tile saw, a laser beam for installing the ceiling tile, a drywall texturing machine, scaffolds, ladders.

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