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The Miracle On Fruitdale StreetBy Barry Shaw
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The Miracle On Fruitdale StreetBy Barry Shaw
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July 2009July 2009
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Matt Heverly recalls that lifechanging day in September 2005
when Pastor Peter John Courson
of Applegate Christian Fellowship
asked him to go out and start a
church in Grants Pass.
“He said,
‘I’d like you to be pastor.
What
do you think?’” Matt says, “I’m
just shocked.
I’m thinking, ‘I
don’t want to do that’.
.
.
I was
scared stiff.
” On Sunday, October
9, 2005, Edgewater Christian
Fellowship (“ECF”) held its first
service at Fruitdale Elementary
School in Grants Pass.
The miracle
on Fruitdale Drive had begun!
Matt recounts the hand of God
in the creation of God’s newest
congregation in Grants Pass,
Oregon: “I was worried that
nobody would come.
Who am I?
I’m just this kid.
I went into fullsurvival mode.
” His first step was
to find
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