This coming Sunday, we are having our first service in the tabernacle. This will be the first church service in the tabernacle since the new roll roofing was put on the building.

 

Even though it is certainly not completed, it is at least, for the most part, in the dry.

 

I don't know how many years the water has poured into that building, but I know it was years even prior to our coming here in 1999.  Personally, I don't know how the building was able to take so much water.  It certainly had to be God that preserved it.

 

You who have visited Miracle Valley in the past years may remember the old choir risers.  They were disassembled, etc., and the boards were utilized in replacing the bad wood in the roof structure.  Today, if you look up at the ceiling, you will see the boards that made up the choir risers.

 

 

Should we lose Miracle Valley, it would be such a shame, especially when you consider how far we have come.

 

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have gone into Miracle Valley.

 

Literally thousands of man hours, comprising hard work, from volunteers and hired workers have likewise gone into Miracle Valley.

 

 

After a number of years, we finally got the Childcare Center remodeled and licensed by the State of Arizona to such a point that it is one of the nicest childcare facilities in southern Arizona.

 

Our formal application to the State Board of Charter Schools was submitted to them and we believe we should receive our official approval very soon.  The Charter School would give us a lot of daily activity at Miracle Valley and be a blessing to numerous families in the local area.

 

What do I do at this point?  Well, if you know me very well, you will know that I still believe God for a financial miracle. 

 

If course, what is money and what is a million or even two million dollars?  It is just a one or a two with a lot of zeros behind it.

 

I know God sent me to Miracle Valley.  Sister Harter & I have given our all, as well as many others who have stood with us in their prayers and financial support.

 

But I will still continue to believe God for the impossible.  PRAISE GOD!

 

God has sent me the necessary funds throughout my entire life.

 

While Sister Harter and I were evangelizing back in our 20's, I said to someone who was traveling with us on the old gospel bus going down the highway, "If we needed ten dollars, God could have one of these cars to stop and pull us over and give us the funds."  Why those words were no sooner out of my mouth when a car in front of us immediately pulled to the curb. A man jumped out and flagged us over to the side.  He ran up to our door, placed his foot on the first step of that bus, informed us that God told him to give us ten dollars.   GLORY TO GOD!

 

Sister Harter & I were building a million-dollar church building that seated 750 people.  Those were the Recession years. I had been working some men but had run out of money to pay them. I called them aside, asking them if they would continue working and let me pay them later because I am a man of faith and I believed God would give me the money I needed. They agreed, and week after week, they worked without pay. The newspaper people came to see me, inquiring as to how I was still working people. I told them that I was building my church on faith.  Several days later, with a large picture of our church on the front page, were these words, "CHURCH BUILDS ON FAITH." 

 

By the way, God sent me a sinner man who gave me $4,700 so I could pay our workers.

 

Once at the Church of God General Offices in Cleveland, TN, I was in an Assisted General Overseer's office.  I went there to get $35,000.  He told me previously that he would give it to our local church.  I will never forget his words, "Melvin Harter, you are just plain stupid or a man with great faith.  I am unsure about which?" But I responded stating that "I like to think I am a man of faith."  But I want tell you that when I left his office, I had that $35,000 in my pocket.  GOD MET OUR NEED!