The next time you wonder how you will build a church, take heart of this excellent example! Note also this article on the same. With God all things really are possible.
Elder Joel, from Preu?e?ti, Suceava of Rumania is a true example of humility for those around him. Albeit the founder of three churches, he himself lives in an extremely humble abode.
Comforts and material goods never mattered to 83-year-old father Joel. He has never even given a thought to abandoning the “hut” that he himself had dug in the ground.
To build the churches, Fr. Joel had run tirelessly in order to collect donations.
“I dug out the hut, and for 2 years was beseeching the Holy Mother to help me find the money to build a church. I finally built – not one, but three churches! I don’t know how to thank God for all this”, he stated.
How beautiful and real. A far cry from the “prosperity gospel”preachers and mega-churches of today.
I could only hope to have a portion of his humility.