6-27-09 (Saturday)

On Saturday a little after noon Grandma Bet walked into her new home only to discover a house full of people welcoming her with shouts of excitement "WELCOME HOME!" Little known to Grandma Bet, many friends, family, and project donators came together to celebrate her house warming. Tears of joy flowed from Grandma Bet's eyes and from many others in attendance. The only words Grandma Bet could say were "Praise God, God is good". I must admit that as we watched the Grandma Bet Story DVD clip, tears came to my eyes, too.

There is a part of me and many more Kindgom Builders members that are sad to see this project come to an end. But as I write this today, I can't wait to see what God has in store for KINGDOM BUILDERS. Grandma Bet's project is just the start of bigger and better things. God of the City (click here) where do we go from here?

The countdown began Monday for our launch of Grandma Bet's (surprise) Saturday house warming...prayer, late night shopping trips, furniture donation pick-ups, final building inspection, final survey, pest control spraying, obtaining a certificate of occupancy, more prayer, final grading, tree planting, turning on electricity, charging the HVAC system, landscaping, laying sod, adjusting irrigation, more prayer, trimming trees, site clean-ups, inside cleaning, kitchen stocking, more last minute shopping trips, moving furniture, more prayer, hanging pictures, blinds, curtains, building a picnic table and furniture, delivery of appliances and furniture, more prayer, last minute curtain sewing, towel monogramming and more clean-up.

Only God could orchestrate the details and last minute to do list items that were completed this week; and the beauty was seeing how he instrumentally used so many people, with so many talents to become ONE unified body...BUILDING GOD'S KINGDOM.

Ephesians 4: 4-6 We are all one body, we have the same Spirit, and we have all been called to the same glorious future. 5 There is only one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 and there is only one God and Father, who is over us all and in us all and living through us all (NLT).