A small congregation in the foothills of the Great Smokey's
built a new sanctuary on a piece of land willed to them by a
church member. Ten days before the new church was to
open, the local building inspector informed the pastor that
the parking lot was inadequate for the size of the building.

Until the church doubled the size of the parking lot, they
would not be able to use the new sanctuary. Unfortunately,
the church with its undersized parking lot had used every
inch of their land except for the mountain against which it
had been built. In order to build more parking spaces, they
would have to move the mountain out of the backyard.

Undaunted, the pastor announced the next Sunday Morning
that he would meet that evening with all members who had
"mountain moving faith."

They would hold a prayer session asking God to remove
the mountain from the back yard and to somehow provide
enough money to have it paved and painted before the
scheduled opening dedication service the following week.

At the appointed time, 24 of the congregation's 300
Members assembled for prayer. They prayed for nearly
three hours. At ten o'clock the pastor said the final
"Amen".
"We'll open next Sunday as scheduled," he assured
everyone. "God has never let us down before, and I believe
He will be faithful this time too."

The next morning as he was working in his study there
came a loud knock at his door. When he called "come in",
a rough looking construction foreman appeared, removing
his hard hat as he entered.

"Excuse me, Reverend. I'm from Acme Construction
Company over in the next county. We're building a huge
new shopping mall over there and we need some fill dirt.
Would you be willing to sell us a chunk of that mountain
behind the church? We'll pay you for the dirt we remove
and pave all the exposed area free of charge, if we can have
it right away. We can't do anything else until we get the
dirt in and allow it to settle properly."

The little church was dedicated the next Sunday as
originally planned and there were far more members with
"mountain moving faith" on opening Sunday than there had
been the previous week!