Did God Stop This Rock from Crushing Church?

By Robert Burgess Boston.com Staff May 10, 2014 1:34 PM

Here is a close encounter for you. The scene: A Saugus church. The plan: Blast a hill of rock out back. And pray it all works out.

As you can see in this video posted to YouTube, congregants came just inches from having to pony up a bit more in the collection plate to pay for a new wall.

According to WHDH, the 10-foot rock rolled out from under the blasting mats, went over a handicap ramp, and stopped just a foot from Grace Ministries Church.

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Pastor Rick LeClair told WCVB that if the 20-ton boulder went another 12 inches it would have gone right through building.

A construction crew was clearing the land to build a charter school, according to WHDH.

The Main Street churchs food pantry services thousands of people in need. It probably would have closed us down, LeClair told WCVB, but it didnt.

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Did God Stop This Rock from Crushing Church?