Prayer Rooms and Keytars

The following is a blog written by Kylee on our personal blogsite (philandkylee.blogspot.com) but is definitely a story that you, our supporters, should hear. So I took the liberty of posting it to this site. God is truly incredible and is always faithful:


This last month I've been putting together a prayer room: the first thing ever to happen in our new building.

And...at every junction there was something standing in the way. The date I could get into the building kept getting pushed back. They found mold. Had to wait for mold tests...etc. Finally, last Friday (after some pushiness), a couple guys from the church and staff went over to help me seal off entrances and hang curtains. The city inspector rolls up and strolls in...does not even respond to my hello...and starts asking what we are doing there. He's talking about permits we don't have, how the labels on the fabric don't specify that they are flame resistant...on and on. Randomly, the guy in charge of that part of our building project pulled up and smoothed things out a little.

On Saturday we went back in to work some more. A couple hours in a guy from our church who is an Environmental Specialist pulled up and told me the mold tests weren't back, and we shouldn't be in there. After some clarification took place, they somehow got that worked out.

So, on the edge as it was...I wasn't able to get back to the prayer room setup until Wednesday. It started Thursday. I got a call on Wednesday from my pastor saying that the city inspector was being a thorn...that he wanted to set up a fire inspection on Thursday before he would let us be in there. Chris said I couldn't work on it anymore until after that. Umm...does anyone realize this starts TOMORROW?

I went into Reagan's office really angry. And I said, "You know, I have to believe that God wants this to happen. It's HIS prayer room, right? I wish he would get going on it. I've done all I can."

Wouldn't you know...

Chris somehow got a fireman from our church and the city inspector to meet on Wednesday. They walked through and the city inspector started talking about prayer. ...he teared up. ...he asked Chris to pray with him (there. in the prayer room). And then he said, "Eh, just put a fire extinguisher in here, and we'll call it good."

Really? Do I have any case to doubt Him? It happens time and time again. He is so faithful, and suprising...and...funny, right? Of course it would happen like that.

So, God is still bigger than Kylee...that's the report today.

In other news, Phil is preaching this week at Aftershock and just acquired a "keytar" which is flippin' sweet.

We are also needing some prayer on some decisions we need to make about my degree program and our future for the next couple of years. Stresses me out to make decisions that launch me into adulthood. :)