#15 Faith in Action - Ivan and Donna Preston

Ivan and Donna are with us today to share their story of serving God. They have served in Toronto, Oakville, Mexico, and now in Kitchener. Theirs is a story of God's provision. I couldn't fit all of Donna's miracle list below, but here are some of them: Miracles in relation to building of Sheridan Hills EMC. Working backwards! 1.Sat. it rained. Mud everywhere. I phoned Pat Frances and said that I needed her to agree with me in prayer about the day. I was asking God that Sunday would be beautiful, sun shining, warm and a slight breeze to dry up the mud.. We agreed together. Sun. a.m. was kind of dull - but nice - a lot of the mud dried up, but Sunday afternoon the sun came out. We had a beautiful day, no mud! Warm - not hot - just right - P.T.L. It was a miracle because not only had it rained all day Saturday, but the weather man had predicted rain for Sunday. 2. I was concerned because even though we had verbal approval to be in the building, we had nothing from the different departments in writing. I was worried that they might cause a problem. So Saturday afternoon Pat and I agreed that there would be no difficulties, no problems, that the opening would go smooth and to the Glory of God. It did! It could not have gone better. P.T.L 3. We needed money to cover the finishing of the Kitchen, the septic system and the landscaping. Approx. $7,000 came in on Sunday. P.T.L. 4. All along the Lord has supplied in various ways the money so the building could be debt free. P.T.L. 5. The Piano - Ivan’s desire was someday for a grand piano - be nice for the opening. Back several months ago one of Ivan’s mother’s cousins had donated $5,000.00 toward a Piano in memory of Ivan’s mom. Suddenly the possibility of a grand piano became real. However we needed - we were told about $4,000.00 more. We felt that if this was the will of the Lord, He’d supply the rest of the money - but we really didn’t figure it would happen before the opening. Anyway, during Stayner camp Ken Wilson contacted Ivan and said he had a Grand Piano for us. We hadn’t even ordered it yet! Ken said he got it for us. We said we were short about $2,400.00. Ken said the piano was only going to be $6500.00 - he’d gotten a special deal. Now we only needed $1500.00. Could he leave the piano with us in Oakville while we decided? Ivan said yes! Ivan had been asked to visit a friend of his mom’s. He went and she handed him an envelope for the church. Before he opened it he told her about the piano and asked if she’d like her gift to go in memory of his mom toward the piano. She’d be delighted and said there was enough to finish paying for the piano plus tuning! P.T.L. It is a lovely piano and we Praise God for it.