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Throughout the 1997 year, the Land Development Committee actively pursued plans for financing our first multi-purpose building. We were moving closing to realizing yet another portion of the vision God had given us. As a body of believers standing on the promises of God, we closed 1997 with prayers of thanksgiving and opened 1998 with praise.

As Rev. McGensy stayed faithful to teaching on God’s Word without equivocation, Family Community Church begin to have an impact on the community-at-large...many were saved and many new families united with us. With the theme “Spiritual Maturity,” 1998 was a year in which we saw much growth toward Christian maturity as we held our focus on the vision given our pastor. Our faith in God never wavered as we continued to believe “God would do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think.” The membership grew as many souls were saved and brought into the kingdom of God, while some of our faithful soldiers were called home to be with the Lord during that year.

In January 1998, the church submitted an application to Regency Bank to borrow funds to build the multi-purpose building on our property. After months of trials and testing our faith, the Lord touched the hearts of the bankers and our loan request was pre-approved.

For several months, the Land Development Committee enthusiastically worked with the architect and engineers to develop blueprints for the project. Despite the fact we tried to be conservative with costs, when we went to bid, the lowest bidder came in $600,000 over budget. We were sent back to our knees in prayer and with God’s enabling, we made substantial cutbacks, redrew portions of the blueprints, and were granted concessions from the City of Fresno. We are grateful to several friends of Family Community Church who contributed their time and talents to assist us. Finally, we were able to negotiate with the two lowest bidders and eventually awarded the contract to Basila Construction, Inc., of Madera which offered a bid $2,000 under our budget.

We were then able to return to the bank for final approval for a land and construction loan in the amount of $2,398,500.00. The loan was approved and escrow closed on March 5, 1999, exactly four years from the date of our first worship service at Kastner Intermediate School.

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