Please Pray for Kayla!!!

Blog for Kayla... Kayla's family has created a blog to keep us updated on her progress... you can check it out at... http://kaylatalbot.blogspot.com/.Thanks for your continued prayers!!!

Saturday, April 26, 2008... PLEASE PRAY!!

We got a call that one of the girls from our new church is in the hospital. She's a college student in San Diego. Apparently she had a strep infection that went bad. Her name is Kayla. She's in a coma... her body is septic, and she's on a ventilator and dialysis. Please pray!

Sunday, April 27...

Thank you for your prayers! Kayla is at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla.

ePrayer...

"Jesus, we come to You right now on behalf of the this family. Thank You that Kayla knows You! Please comfort her and speak Your Truth and Your Peace to her heart! Please give the doctors wisdom and insight into her condition! Give them and the nurses the discernment that they need! Thank You that several of the nurses know You! Lead and direct them. Please allow Your Holy Spirit to be felt in a powerful way in that room! May all who enter sense Your presence and be drawn to You! May Your comfort and Your peace rest upon Kayla, Laura, Tom, Kelly, Tim, Ashley, Cara, and the others who are hurting right now because they love Kayla! Thank You for Laura's prayer partners... please be with them in a powerful way as they lift all these things up to You! Give them insight into how to pray, and how to be your hands and feet! Thank you for Laura's relationship with you! Thank You for her passion for You, Your Word, prayer, and people! Please be holding her close and giving her the nourishment and rest that she needs! Please reveal Yourself to each of us in a powerful way and give us more of a hunger for You and a desire to be in a deeper relationship with You! Help this time, and the body of Christ in action, draw those who don't know You to You in a deep and personal way! Show us how to pray! May Your will be done! If it is Your will to heal Kayla, then we pray for a miraculous healing and complete recovery! We pray for her organs to be able to recover, for no long term damage, and for every part of her body to work correctly! If it is Your will to heal her by bringing her home to Your presence, then we pray for healing and comfort for the Kayla's family and friends! We pray for Your provision and protection! We pray, above all, that YOU be glorified in this situation, and that YOUR name be lifted high, and that others would see You in each of us and be drawn to You! We leave all these things in YOUR capable hands! Thank You for Your love, peace, joy, and comfort! We love you! Amen. "

Thank you again for your prayers! Please keep lifting them up to our heavenly Father!

~Suzanne

The Story... The Short Version...

Kelly & Suzanne will be moving to Bishop, CA this summer.  Kelly is new the pastor of Bishop Creek Community Church, an Evangelical Free Church.   They will be in Bishop full time starting July 1, 2008.   This was an unexpected, yet welcomed, surprise for the Larsons, who assumed they would be moving to Kauai after Kelly finished school.  Kelly graduates in May with a masters degree in Apologetics from Biola.

The Story Behind The Story

Kelly’s Mentor, Wally Norling, encouraged Kelly to put in his application with the EFCA (Evangelical Free Church of America) and get the process started.  In late November, 2007, Kelly & Suzanne met with Dennis Baker, who spoke with them about the possibility of going on staff with a church in the EFCA West.  They had planned on meeting with him for 1-2 hours, which turned into 4 hours.  They told Dennis about their desire to minister on staff at the Evangelical Free Church  on Kauai (Ohana Christian Fellowship).  He told them about a small church in Bishop, California that needed a pastor.  He asked Kelly to help with pulpit supply (preach one Sunday), and they decided to do that. The first weekend in 2008 Kelly & Suzanne drove up to Bishop.  They had been praying for the people of this church for just over a month. Almost a year without a pastor, this body felt the call of God to stay together.  The Lord has done amazing things in the hearts of this body of believers.  Kelly & Suzanne quickly felt their hearts knit to this group of people.  By the time the weekend was over, they both felt they wanted to be a part of what the Lord was doing in Bishop… IF it was the Lord’s will.

...a few weeks later they were asked to candidate.  Kelly & Suzanne candidated at Bishop Creek Community Church the weekends of February 17 & 24.  On February 24 the call was extended and accepted.  The Larsons will be in Bishop full time starting July, 2008.