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Appropriately, Mary gives first $20 in Mary's House challenge. 2012-08-04 - 6970 Burkesville Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. Impressed by stories of how much a gift of $20 can mean at the right time Matt Baker at Flatwoods Diner set up the Flatwoods Challenge to have coffee drinkers and diners pitch in with some twenties for the cause. "We want to do our part," he said, "and now that the project is so close to to its goal, we want to do our part, however big or small it may be, to help see Mary's House built." Coincidentally, "The first $20 in the ketchup jar converted to a donation box was from another Mary - Mary Keltner." She said, "I'd been meaning to contribute and this is a easy way to do it. Baker added, "Our effort may not raise over a couple of hundred dollars, but if other stores around the county were to do what we're doing, we might be able to get last money raised by the middle of next week, so I'm challenging other country stores to do the same thing." Wouldn't that make Fran Neat's statement, "God's Amazing Grace is at work in our community," be downright prophetic if by Prayer Meeting on Wednesday night, August 8, 2012, there could be a prayers of thanks for a challenge met, a goal completed, and work could be begun? (Picture taken early this morning)- EW Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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