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The year brought into the vision was Pastor
is 1987 Debbie Martin, his wife. And what a
when helpmate she has been. Together
God they founded Grace Ministries in
births a Central Illinois, and Grace
vision Fellowship Church.
into a There is so much more about
young minister named Bob Martin.
Pastor Bobs vision and his journey
I am not certain if he understood fulfilling that vision that I would
at that time how much that vision love to tell, but I could never do
would impact his life for the next justice to the story so let us
few decades. Or for that matter reserve that for a future date when
how much it would impact those Pastor Bob can tell it himself.
who would sit under his ministry.
Grace Fellowship needed a larger
I will tell you this, Pastor Bob does facility, one that we would own
believe in the Biblical concept of ourselves, and provide for
Habakkuk 2:2” Then the Lord ministries within his vision.
answered me and said, “write the Some may call it fate, luck, timing,
vision and make it plain on tablets, etc., but we call it DIVINE
that he may run who reads it.”
INTERVENTION.
During the past 10 years that I Remember the country church built
have been associated with Pastor in 1878 from a God given vision, a
Bob I have heard an endless vision that never ends? When it
teaching on vision. Do not get me appeared, the doors would remain
wrong, I have learned a lot from closed and the church would cease
these teachings.
to exist, God connected that vision
One of the things that I recognized from 1878 with the vision He gave
is Pastor Bobs ability to take the Pastor Bob and Pastor Debbie into
vision God gave him for the church one vison that allowed not only the
and present it in a way that the doors of the church to once again
body of the church desires to assist open, but also the facility for us to
in making the vision a reality. He step into the next phase of Grace
took that vision to a place where it Fellowships God given vision.
became the vision of the church, What the enemy thought was the
not just Pastor Bob.
end has now become a victory for
The first person and undoubtedly the Kingdom.
the most devoted person He
