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Minnesota male suffering from a malignant tumor brain, saw a dilapidated church and made a decision rebuild the temple. At the end of the reconstruction of the abandoned building, cancer patient turned to doctors who reported the disappearance of all signs of a deadly disease. Three years ago Greg Thomas of Montgomery, Minnesota was diagnosed with: malignant brain tumor of the 4th degree. Doctors reported family members of a 57-year-old man who are powerless to help, and advised to prepare for the upcoming funeral. At work, Gregu they said that they were relieving him of his post so that hopelessly sick man could devote the remaining days of his life close ones. Thomas often walked in the countryside with his dog, trying to hide from sympathetic glances. During one of of such walks, a man came across an old dilapidated church. “I have repeatedly tried to get into an abandoned building, but it always It was closed. Every time I came to a locked church, I had a desire to offer a prayer. Then I sat on steps and mentally asked heaven to help me, ”recalls Greg.
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After several visits to an abandoned building, a 57-year-old man suddenly felt that he should restore the church. “To me a neighbor came and said that one person wants to reconstruct the temple absolutely free. The only thing he asked was the key to churches. I could not believe my ears, because everything is falling on a crumbling building long waved a hand, ”says the cemetery caretaker, at which is the church. Having received the coveted key, Thomas with enthusiastically began to clean off 15 layers of old paint that had accumulated on the building over the past 150 years. Restorer admits that work it was not easy for him, because radiation and chemotherapy are fatal affected his state of health, having taken away all his strength. Greg even more perked up, finding inside the church whole wooden benches and Christian sculptures. The restoration of the destroyed temple was not the only miracle that happened in a state rural town Minnesota: doctors told Thomas about his complete remission diseases.
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“He did this for me, and I thanked him,” with tears on says the healed man, looking at the statue of Jesus Christ. Although Greg Thomas now has his own key to the church, he often sitting on the steps of the restored building, offering prayers.
