Rolling boulder stops inches from local church

A construction blast near a Saugus church nearly became a demolition job, but the pastor there is calling it a case of divine intervention.

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A large boulder was just inches from rolling right into, and possibly through, the church.

"If it rolled another 12 inches, it would have gone right through the building," Pastor Rick LeClair said. "This boulder was probably 20 tons."

Video of the boulder stopping inches from church

LeClair is the pastor of Grace Ministries Church on Main Street.

An excavation company was clearing land next door for a construction project, and its removal of some rock earlier this week nearly moved a lot more.

"We were standing across the street saying, 'Uh-oh. There it goes,'" LeClair said. "I was thinking the church was going to get wrecked, but I had this peace about me where it really wasn't going to get wrecked. And it didn't."

LeClair is, of course, a religious man and said he had a feeling something divine was about all of it.

"The Lord just kinda said, 'That's enough,'" he said.

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