Amen Phil,
a wonderful example of how our Lord works to help us.
Virgie and lady hoshi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
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.
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