phil!

that's awesome!  I'll pray for tom and his wife also!
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:42 PM
Subject: Praise Report


> We have two furnaces in our home.  They are both in the basement.  The
> larger of the two works for upstairs and downstairs and it is an 80 
> percent
> efficiency 100,000 B T U infrared start up.  In other words, no flame. 
> The
> second furnace is in the full sized one bedroom apartment the takes up 
> about
> two thirds of our basement.  This is where Gretchen lives now.  When 
> Everett
> and Donna first got married, our second furnace just died one day so we 
> put
> in a new one and it has been working well for several years, a little over 
> 4
> years I guess it's been.  It is a smaller 60,000 B T U unit, with the
> infrared starter, and a 90 percent efficiency.  We went to a high 
> efficiency
> until because you can use PVC pipe instead of double walled aluminum for 
> the
> exhaust.  This way, we could run the PVC pipe across the basement ceiling
> and punch a whole in the back wall of the house so the exhaust could vent 
> to
> the outside.  I bet you don't have a horizontal furnace chimney.  The duct
> work is only in the apartment so we didn't need a huge house furnace but 
> it
> pumps out the heat like you can't believe and the blower alone almost 
> knocks
> you down when it comes on.  It has been giving us some trouble, the last 
> few
> months, by not fully coming on.  I didn't have the money really to have it
> looked at but it gets really cold downstairs so I call the man who 
> installed
> both our furnaces and also our central air.  I didn't know how I was going
> to pay him exactly, although I had some cash, but I didn't feel too much 
> was
> wrong with the furnace in the first place.  So, Tom comes over this
> afternoon and in 2 minutes, he tells us what's wrong.  We needed a new
> filter and the automatic aspect of the unit wouldn't let the heat come on
> since it could cause a fire by over heating due to the build up on the
> filter.  I thought Everett had replaced the filter but it didn't look like
> it.  So Tom comes upstairs and talks to me for awhile and finally, I pull 
> my
> drawer open to pull out some cash Gretchen had given me for her rent. 
> "How
> much do I owe you, Tom?" I asked.  "Nothing," he said flatly.  "Oh, come 
> on,
> Tom.  You drove all the way down from Boulder."  That's a 35 mile trip, by
> the way, but Tom doesn't live up there, he just was working up there on a
> job.  He refused the money repeatedly.  I kept insisting.  Finally he 
> said,
> "Look, Phil.  Everett gives me new business all the time.  I'm not 
> charging
> you for such a little thing.  Your son has sent lots of business my way so 
> I
> won't take any money.  He also told me to call him if we needed anything
> else.  So, although I was planning on paying him with the cash I had, the
> Lord worked it out for nothing.  Plus, I got filled in on all the latest
> news.  Tom isn't a Christian, that we know of, but he had quite the drug 
> and
> alcoholic problem a few years ago.  He and his wife have gotten things all
> worked out and Tom sounded the best I have ever heard him today.  I'm 
> always
> looking out for those people who are lost and need Jesus even if they 
> don't
> know they need Him yet.
>
> Phil.
>