Huge boulder narrowly misses church

SANGUS, MA (WCVD/CNN) - Cameras captured a construction blast outside a church that nearly became a demolition job.

A Massachusetts pastor says it was divine intervention that kept the church from being damaged, just a few inches separating a quirky story from a disaster.

"If it had rolled another 12 inches it would've went right through the building," said Pastor Rick LeClair, Grace Ministries Church. "And this boulder was probably 20 tons."

LeClair is pastor of the Grace Ministries Church.

An excavation company was clearing land next door, and their removal of some rock this week nearly moved a heck of lot more.

"We were standing across the street going, 'Uh-oh. There it goes.' 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," LeClair said.

LeClair had a feeling there was something divine about all of this.

"The Lord just kind of said, 'That's enough,'" LeClair said.

Grace Ministries feeds thousands of out of the food pantry at the church, people in the community count on the church and it was almost lost.

"It would have probably closed us down, but it didn't," he said. "Everybody around the whole neighborhood and working on the site were under the same kind of agreement that the lord intervened."

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