Some of you are already aware and praying - thank you. It has long been on my heart to bring Teen Challenge to Brainerd, Minnesota establishing a faith based drug treatment center in the city. I started my association with their ministry back in 1970. A couple from my area, Dave and Patty Batty, are the directors of the Teen Challenge in New York and my family has been involved with supporting the center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They yearly visit our church doing a concert and service, as well as other churches in the area that support their ministry.
We have secured a former church building and an anonymous donor will pay off the mortgage of over $1.25 Million for the church, if they will donate the land and building to Teen Challenge. The church has voted and it passed unanimously - it is my church! The city council meet for the first of many meetings and unanimously passed to study a variance for property use. The open citizen's meeting has now been moved up a month and many of us are working hard to inform residents on this wonderful program. There are a few more government hoops that we have to fit through and then, if God is willing they will come.
From there the building needs to be converted for their use with a means to separate the women from the men and the list goes on. No matter, when we moved out of that building into our new church facility - I knew that it was not to be sold but to be donated, even though the church needs the money. I am at peace with these decisions and am certain that although there may be obstacles along the way the this will be accomplished by God's grace and the hard work of His dedicated and praying people.
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