God Always Has A Purpose

Dusty · 09-16-2007, 01:41 AM

T he brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn , arrived in early October excited about their opportunities When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set a goal to have everything done in time to have their first service on Christmas Eve.
T hey worked hard, repairing pews, plastering walls,painting, etc, and on December 18were ahead of schedule and just about finished.
O n December 19 a terrible tempest - a drivingrainstorm hit the area and lasted for two days.
O n the 21st, the pastor went over to the church.His heart sank when he saw that the roof hadleaked, causing a large area of plaster about20 feet by 8 feet to fall off the front wall of thesanctuary just behind the pulpit, beginning abouthead high.
The pastor cleaned up the mess on the floor,and not knowing what else to do but postponethe Christmas Eve service, headed home.On the way he noticed that a local business washaving a flea market type sale for charity so hestopped in. One of the items was a beautiful,handmade, ivory colored, crocheted tableclothwith exquisite work, fine colors and a Crossembroidered right in the center. It was justthe right size to cover up the hole in the frontwall. He bought it and headed back to the church.
B y this time it had started to snow. An older woman running from the opposite direction was trying to catch the bus.. She missed it. The pastor invited her to wait in the warm church for the next bus 45 minutes later. She sat in a pew and paid no attention to the pastor while he got a ladder, hangers, etc., to put up the tablecloth as a wall tapestry. The pastor could hardly believe how beautiful it looked and it covered up the entire problem area.

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