Building Blessings

The men of the church started building the first part of the church which was a small lean too attached to the main building which we now use as our library, nursery, and offices.  They didn't have money to hire outside help so as they had time and money they worked on the building.  Only one man was a trained carpenter, Dwight Abram.  They mixed concrete by hand and poured it for the foundation.  One day they were pouring the concrete in the east room and the duct work in the floor kept floating to the top so Dwight took off his shoes and socks and got in the concrete with his bare feet to work it down.  He got terrible concrete poisoning as a result and bad sores on his feet and couldn't work for several days.

Dwight was a farmer and carpenter by trade.  He had 6 children but after he sold a load of grain that first summer, he gave our pastor a check for the entire load.

 

It was a great blessing for us and a very unselfish act from a man who could barely afford it.  The pastor then went to every family in our little group of believers and showed them the check and by the end of that day we had enough money to buy all the lumber from the old Baptist Church. They had purchased it from the demolition of the old courthouse but decided not to build.  We were ready to start putting up walls!

While the men were working on the building one day the Harry Kejr family of Salina saw they were putting on the roof and sent a check to pay for the entire roof.  They didn't even attend our church!  Once the east side of the church building was closed in we started meeting in what is now the church library.  We had to walk through sand and construction material to get to that little room, but we were finally in our own building!

2 Corinthians 4:15 "For all things are for your sake, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God."