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The next week when they met again, Stewart offered to finance the sale at a fraction of the property’s worth and cutting down the payments to half. The house came furnished with everything they needed, including furniture, bedding, towels, sheets, cookware and decorations. Hollie and Brent sold everything they owned in a yard sale. They moved in with their children and their clothes. Growing Room “I was overwhelmed,” Hollie remembers. “By now we had four children: Andrew, Allison, Aaron and Alana. Each child had their own bedroom and bathroom. Our kids ran and played all over those 12 acres. We had so much space that we could have 15 or 16 people spend the night with no problem. “Some people are blessed in the city, but we were blessed in the field. We live in a house that we did not build, one for the family and one for the church. We drink from a well that we did not dig. It’s got a beautiful spring well. We are so blessed! “The first thing we did was clean out the barn and turn it into a church. For the first time in years, our church had a physical home. We renamed it North Point Church. We lived at the end of a dead-end dirt road, but we asked God to send us worshippers and laborers, and they came. “Mr. Stewart visited on a regular basis to see how things were going. Scratching his head at all the cars, he asked if we were advertising. I said, ‘No, Mr. Stewart, we’re just calling them in.’ “We’d only been here a couple of weeks when I met Annette Taylor at a ladies’ meeting. Annette, who works at KCM, is a great woman of faith who worked for Gloria Copeland. Her husband, who wasn’t saved, became friends with Brent. He was saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, and they came to our church. “Brent really connected with the faith message through the Ministers’ Conference. Although I attended the conferences and meetings, God knew I needed to come in another way. Through Annette, God taught me faith and its application in a woman’s life. She has remained a faithful friend. Watching her and learning from her was a game-changer for me. I’ve also loved reading the Copelands’ devotional "From Faith to Faith" every morning for years.” A Word From God Stewart was a wonderful Methodist man who didn’t attend church on a regular basis. “One reason God put me on this earth was to get this property to you,” he told Brent and Hollie. “I have to tell you this: God is going to take all your coins—your pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters—and turn them into dollar bills.” When their congregation outgrew three Sunday services each week, Brent and Hollie built a new church on the property. They transformed the barn into a day-care center, then they built a 19,000-square-foot event center. During the pandemic, they called the mayor of Saginaw and asked permission to feed people who didn’t have food. After receiving permission, volunteers from the church began delivering cooked meals to thousands of people. Later, the church began supplying other necessary essentials to those who needed them, including some who had previously mocked them. “When we first became Partners with KCM, we often had to choose between sending in our tithe or paying the water bill,” Brent recalls. “We figured the water bill could wait. Through the years, KCM has provided Bibles and a lot of resources when we needed them. We attend the ministers’ conferences and the conventions. We’ve developed strong relationships. We needed faith to get where God wanted us to be. “We’ve been here now for 17 years. We work, but it’s not hard. The work we did before was so hard, but now we’ve added faith to our efforts. One thing that makes it so joyful is that we experience miracles on a regular basis. People are healed. Relationships are mended. Finances are released.” No one’s laughing now. V JOIN US IN TEACHING BELIEVERS how to use their faith. PARTNER WITH KCM. kcm.org/partnerNOW *********************************** *********************************** *********************************** OCT Read Through the Bible Old Testament / New Testament Fri 1 Isa. 26-28 / 1 Tim. 6 Sat 2 Isa. 29-31 Sun 3 Ps. 110-114; Prov. 24:23-34 Mon 4 Isa. 32-34 / 2 Tim. 1 Tue 5 Isa. 35:1-37:32 / 2 Tim. 2 Wed 6 Isa. 37:33-40:26 / 2 Tim. 3 Thu 7 Isa. 40:27-43:7 / 2 Tim. 4 Fri 8 Isa. 43:8-45:13 / Titus 1 Sat 9 Isa. 45:14-48:22 Sun 10 Ps. 115-118; Prov. 25:1-20 Mon 11 Isa. 49-51 / Titus 2 Tue 12 Isa. 52:1-56:8 / Titus 3 Wed 13 Isa. 56:9-59:21 / Philem. Thu 14 Isa. 60-63 / Heb. 1 Fri 15 Isa. 64-66 / Heb. 2 Sat 16 Jer. 1:1-3:5 Sun 17 Ps. 119:1-48; Prov. 25:21-26:12 Mon 18 Jer. 3:6-5:13 / Heb. 3 Tues 19 Jer. 5:14-7:15 / Heb. 4 Wed 20 Jer. 7:16-9:26 / Heb. 5 Thu 21 Jer. 10-12 / Heb. 6 Fri 22 Jer. 13:1-15:9 / Heb. 7 Sat 23 Jer. 15:10-17:27 Sun 24 Ps. 119:49-88; Prov. 26:13-28 Mon 25 Jer. 18:1-21:10 Heb. 8 Tue 26 Jer. 21:11-23:29 / Heb. 9 Wed 27 Jer. 23:30-26:6 / Heb. 10 Thu 28 Jer. 26:7-28:17 / Heb. 11 Fri 29 Jer. 29:1-31:9 / Heb. 12 Sat 30 Jer. 31:10-32:44 Sun 31 Ps. 119:89-136; Prov. 27:1-22 *********************************** 16 : BVOV

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