diff --git a/src/com/bekvon/bukkit/residence/config/FileConfig.java b/src/com/bekvon/bukkit/residence/config/FileConfig.java
index 2e72877..f097d25 100644
--- a/src/com/bekvon/bukkit/residence/config/FileConfig.java
+++ b/src/com/bekvon/bukkit/residence/config/FileConfig.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package com.bekvon.bukkit.residence.config;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@ import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 
@@ -60,13 +62,29 @@ public class FileConfig extends YamlConfiguration {
 	protected final Yaml yaml = new Yaml(new YamlConstructor(), yamlRepresenter, yamlOptions);
 
 	@Override
-	public void load(File file) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException,
-	InvalidConfigurationException {
+	public void load(File file) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, InvalidConfigurationException {
 		Validate.notNull(file, "File cannot be null");
 		final FileInputStream stream = new FileInputStream(file);
 		load(new InputStreamReader(stream, Charsets.UTF_8));
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	public void load(Reader reader) throws IOException, InvalidConfigurationException {
+		BufferedReader input = (reader instanceof BufferedReader) ? (BufferedReader) reader
+				: new BufferedReader(reader);
+		StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+		try {
+			String line;
+			while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
+				builder.append(line);
+				builder.append('\n');
+			}
+		} finally {
+			input.close();
+		}
+		loadFromString(builder.toString());
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public void save(File file) throws IOException {
 		Validate.notNull(file, "File cannot be null");