Spent my father's heritage at a new coffee bar
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s I mentioned before, my dear father had died shortly before and every child received an advance on the inheritance. Of course, the division among our eight children did not make the amount so great. You could make a nice trip abroad or buy a new television.
John who finally gave in and agreed that this could become a God-given new space, made us want to fight it together with our friends. It was therefore clear to us that the money we had received from the inheritance would be spent on this. Our family thought differently about this, but we saw God's guidance in all of this!
After three months of hard work, we were able to look around with satisfaction. Everywhere was a new coat of paint. New windows in it with cozy old Dutch checkered curtains in front. A neat new toilet and the stove repaired as well as it could. New covering on the floor, not to mention a large banner above the fence with our name 'de Terebint' on it. A large round sticker of Opwekking on the front door with the words, 'God loves you' made the coffee bar complete and ready for us to use!
As I said, it had taken three months to refurbish this totally worn-out building and make it a cozy walk-in again. Programs for young and old were conceived and of course a grand opening! Four fantastic months we were allowed to see the blessing at our work, how happy and grateful we were for this, until after 10 winters without severe frost, it suddenly started freezing hard and we got the message from the owner; 'the ice club must open'!
