Dear Pastor and Friends:

July and August have passed so quickly that I can hardly believe it is September. We signed the papers on the property for the new church on June 28th. We started to work immediately filling out papers for a building permit to remodel the old warehouse and make it into a church building. The people of the church started to clean out the warehouse. It was filled to the top with old and new carpet and junk. It took us three weeks to clean it out and about a month to give everything away and take the rest to the dump. When it was finally cleaned out we all stood in amazement because it looked so big. I think it was at that point that we all got excited about this new building.

While we were doing all this work on the building, Dottie was running the paper work. One day she went to the Dept. of Public works and they told her that the building permit was ready but they had run into a problem. It seems that the government had reinstated the zoning laws from 1992 on June 29th, the day after we signed for the new property. They told her we could have the building permit if the new zoning administrator said OK. They told her to go to the new zoning office and talk to the administrator. She made an appointment to see him and found out that he had no staff or helpers and he was the only one working on the whole Island in the zoning department. She talked with him and begged for an OK but he worked with her for two hours and then loaded her down with a book of rules and regulations that we must follow. She came back and told all of us who were working and we all began to pray. After spending about two weeks and a thousand dollars on paper work she went back to see if everything she had done so far met with his approval. He told her that he was so busy and he had no staff and that he just didn't have the time to work with her on this project. She asked him how she was supposed to get the building permit without his approval. He told her that he would call the building permit office and tell them not to hold up our building permit because he just didn't have the time to help us. She went immediately back to DPW and told them what he had said and they told her not to worry but go ahead and work on the building. The Lord is good. We got the building permit and yesterday the inspector came with Dottie to inspect the electrical and they were talking when he asked her if she wanted him to do the final inspection while he was there. She asked if he could do that. He said yes. So now we have the building roughed in, the electrical work in and the inspector gave us our final inspection and we now have our occupancy permit and the building is far from finished. But thanks be unto the Lord we are finished with the paper work and the inspections. I have always believed that prayer changes things.

Please pray for us as we work on this building and as we work to win the lost to the Lord. The 49-year-old lady who had never read the Bible got saved and we will baptize her on Sunday. Thank you for your prayers and support.

                                                                   In Him,

David & Dottie McClure

Sending church:  Massillon Baptist Temple, 1219 Overlook Ave. SW, Massillon, OH 44647

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