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By Erin Robinson

Erin Robinson photo/SpokaneFAVS
Erin Robinson photo/SpokaneFAVS

My Father’s House is a new prayer and worship center located across from Spokane Community College. Over the past few years, four local couples have joined together to transition My Father’s House from an idea to a fully funded project that is reaching completion.

The mission of My Father’s House is to provide a place for the spirit of prayer and to be open 24 hours a day. In addition, those leading the project want to see the house expand to be a space for local youth to engage in both prayer and worship.

Rebecca Miller and her husband, Rand, have been part of the project since the beginning. Miller says the goal of My Father’s House, as a whole, is to “lift the level of prayer up in Spokane.”

My Father’s House is not connected to a specific denomination or church, but instead brings together people of all Christian backgrounds.

“It is a house of prayer for Spokane and for all nations,” says Miller.

The house is openly a place for people to come together without any divisions.

The four founding couples of the house all come from different churches and a variety of worship leaders from the community have supported the project.

As part of the house’s mission statement, “this location will be open to all of the Body of Christ, including and encouraging all ethnic, cultural, and generational groups to unite their individuality to the whole.”

The physical house is over 100 years old and holds six bedrooms, as well as three baths. The old Victorian home was purchased from Avista for $1.00 on the basis that it be moved from the original property.

The moving process was divided into three steps. First the house had to be lifted off of its foundations, then the new land was prepared for the placement of the house, and lastly, the house was physically moved to its new location roughly 1.8 miles away at at 3111 E. Marshall St.

Volunteer contractors and excavators are helping to restore the house back to original condition, as well as adding a new basement. The basement will eventually hold a sound system that will allow music to be incorporated into worship. The upstairs of the house has been restored for areas centered on prayer.

My Father’s House is expected to be completely renovated and running in the next six months.

Miller says, “God is in this thing. He wants this house of prayer.”

Erin Robinson
Erin Robinsonhttp://www.gonzaga.edu
Erin Robinson is currently a junior at Gonzaga University pursuing a degree in broadcast and electronic media, as well as minors in journalism and music. She is an active member of the University Choir, Chamber Choir and Mu Phi Epsilon music fraternity. Robinson recently studied abroad in Florence, Italy and hopes to combine her passions of travel and media to become an international reporter.

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Jan Shannon
9 years ago

I love the idea of this!! I hope, and pray, that ALL truly will be welcome at the House of Prayer. Young, old; straight, Queer; rich, poor. ALL. Blessings on all who are working toward this unity.

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