Anything is Possible if we work together

Brethren,

I received an email from Br. Gerry Drake that told a story of one man's determination to get a big job done.  I thought you would enjoy it as well.   Thanks Gerry!!

  News report from Bruno , NE In 1981, Herman Ostry and his wife,   Donna, bought a farm a half mile outside of Bruno , Nebraska , a small community sixty miles west of Omaha .. The property had a creek and came with a barn built in the 1920's. The barn floor was always wet   and muddy. When the creek flooded in   1988, the barn ended up with 29 inches of water covering the floor. That   was the last straw.. Ostry needed to move it to higher ground.

He   contacted a building moving company and was discouraged by the bid. One   night around the table, Ostry commented that if they had enough people   they could pick the barn up and move it to higher ground.. Everyone   laughed.

A few days later, Ostry’s son Mike showed his father some calculations. He   had counted the individual boards and timbers in the barn and estimated   that the barn weighed approximately 16,640 pounds. He also estimated that a steel grid needed to move the barn would add another 3,150   pounds, bringing the total weight to just under 10 tons. He figured it would take around 350 people with each person lifting 56 lbs. to move   the barn.

The   town of Bruno , Nebraska was planning its centennial celebration > in late   July of 1988. Herman and Mike presented their barn moving idea to the   committee. The
committee decided to make it part of their   celebration.

So, on July 30, 1988, shortly before 11 a.m., a quick test lift was successfully made. Then, as local television cameras and   4,000 people from eleven states watched, 350 people
moved the barn 115 feet south  and 6 feet higher up a gentle slope and set it on its  new foundation.

The reason most people think that something cannot be done is because they know that they can’t do it by themselves. But impossible things can be done if we join together in the task. Working together, we can not only move barns, but change the world.