Life Saved Through Church Support

This church has made an impact on Plainfield in many ways. ears ago, a few members with backgrounds in construction, started a business. Whenever someone moved to Plainfield to join the church and needed a job, or if someone in town asked them for a job, they would hire them and teach them construction skills. Some of our teenaged sons were part of the business, too, including mine.

My son recently ran into one of the local young men who worked with them. His name is Thee. Thee was in a bad way when he started working with them. He was on drugs, and he had anger issues, and was in a pretty bad place. My son told me that Thee would come to work in the morning, shouting, “I hate you and I’m going to kill you all!” and carry on like that for a time. When he finally stopped, my husband would say, “Are you done yet? Are you finished now? Go pick up a hammer — we have work to do.” And they would start working.

When Jimmy ran into Thee in the store the other day, after many years. Thee said, “I can’t thank you and your dad enough. You taught me so much, and you let me work out my issues—and then it was time to go to work.” He said he has now started a business of his own to hire and train young men who need help, like he did. He’s clean, and happy, and giving back to Plainfield. These church members didn’t preach or do much talking, they just lived what they were learning in the church—they were out there in the trenches, doing the work, and letting their light shine. And it literally saved lives, and is still saving more, like ripples in a pond that keep going on and on. I am so glad we came here to help in this great work, and how wonderful to hear a story like this one.