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expected those challenges, but they caused
us to mature as pastors."
Faith for a Home
In addition to a growing church, their
family was growing as well. Stacy still worked
as a social worker. The house they lived in
had been great for a single person. It worked
well for DaVon and Stacy. But there was no
room for a growing family. DaVon would have
bought them a new home, but the country
was just coming out of the recession and the
housing market was upside down. He wasn't
willing to sell their home at a loss.
"Can I go look at houses?" Stacy asked one
day.
"You can look, but it doesn't make sense to
me," DaVon replied. "We're not going to buy
anything because I won't sell our house at a
deficit."
Stacy found a house she liked and asked
DaVon to take a look.
"There's no reason for me to look because
we're not going to buy," he told her.
"Come on," Stacy pleaded. "Would you just
take a look?"
He agreed to look.
"It was a new neighborhood and when we
walked into the model home, I knew there was
something special about the place," DaVon
remembers. "It wasn't even the house Stacy
wanted me to see. It was perfect for a growing
family. The layout was ideal. It had an office at
the front of the house so that if I had a meeting
the kids could still play in the back.
"The Lord told me to buy the house. That
didn't make sense to me. Our home was
$10,000 upside down. I wasn't willing to sell
it at that kind of loss when I knew in time the
prices would normalize again.
"A couple of days later, I finally obeyed and
contracted to have a house built that was just
like the model. Of course, we got an amazing
deal on it. As soon as I'd done that, my parents
called. Dad explained that they were moving
to Charlotte and needed a place to stay. I told
them to look no further. They could live in
our house, and we wouldn't have to sell it."
Faith for a Church
While their house was being built, DaVon
and Stacy had an opportunity to buy a building
for the church. They had an option either
to buy one half of the building, or the entire
thing. At the time, they could only afford half,
and even that would cost more than they were
paying for rent.
"I've been praying," Stacy said. "God wants
us to buy the entire building. If we only get half
we'll have no room to grow."
The Lord confirmed that with DaVon.
That meant that their monthly payment
would quadruple. Yet, having heard from
God, they signed the documents. Suddenly,
they were building, and renovating the
church building—all in a sagging economy.
Through God's grace and provision, the
entire renovation project, plus the buying of
"The Lord
directed us to
be true to who
He created
us to be."
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