We have to have land. We only have 14 acres where we are. We're maxed out. We can't build a

youth center. We can't have a Christian school here. We can't do anything else here. have to expand this is not anything new to the

elders we've been looking for a piece of property praying we people have asked and

you you'll have an opportunity to ask questions after the service of the elders,

George Grubs, George, if you'll raise your hand.

He's going to be available after the service.

He's spearheaded this, been appointed by the elders to spearhead this look for land, search for land, and he'll be available to that service.

Also tonight, the service is at six, the business meeting, but but at 530 the elders will all be here all the

elders to ask any questions answer any questions you have we won't do no

question is a bad question why do we need so much land? Why are we buying land at this time? Any of those questions we want to answer.

So we began looking at this land next door, obviously first.

The reason we're not going that route, two reasons.

One is they want our firstborn children for that land.

They wanted all this money.

It was unbelievable. This land that we purchased, the land the bank purchased, Bank 1, was about $7 a foot, they won $8 a foot for the back of this property and $14 a foot for the front of it.

Land all up and down 1709 is 6-6 to $12 a foot.

We bought this land for a little over two dollars a

foot. We purchased this land when we were two hundred people. We bought fourteen

acres one point four million dollars when we were two hundred because we saw you coming and we envisioned that.

We began building this building,

which was 8.5 million for phase 1, 6 million for phase two, but we began building this

building when we were 600 people. By God's grace, we paid cash for phase one,

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