Our testimony
Good day and God bless. My name is Matthew Phillips. My wife Kelsey and I are the founders of TRIPLETSANCTUARY.COM, and cofounders of Triple T Churchhouse. after 13 years of marriage, family, striving for success and control in life, achieving success, conforming to world, standards, failure, loss, addiction, infidelity, legal troubles, prison, overdose, near death experiences, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, sobriety, comebacks, walking with God, complacency, more success, more failure, depression, anxiety, fear of criticism, repentance, reconciliation, and then finally surrender. We received a calling from the Lord, and accepted.
In February 2023, my wife and I, after having been separated and filing for divorce, decided to give our marriage and our family, with our daughter Gracie one last shot. Except this time we decided to put God in the driver seat. Shortly after we made that decision, my wife, who was going back-and-forth, between where I was living at the time, and our home in deer Creek, to take care of our pets, had an accident. We live in Oklahoma, and it had froze the night before. When she got home, she was on the phone with me, and forgot her Bible and her journal in the car. On her way back in from fetching them, she slipped on some ice, on the walkway to the house. Her feet slipped out from under her, and she fell straight back, and hit her head on the iced over concrete. She was rushed to the emergency room, and had to have staples put in to close up the gnash, that had split open when she hit. The doctor said that she was lucky to be alive, that if she had hit 1 cm from where she did, she would’ve died instantly. They also told us, that she suffered a TBI (traumatic brain injury), and a concussion. We also learned, that because the brain is so complex, that the after effects were unpredictable. Ranging from no symptoms, to; loss of sight, hearing, motor skills, memory, bouts of anger, and even sudden death sometimes. We thank God she is still with us. For the last two years, since we received our calling into ministry, we’ve gone through what looks like to others a spell a very bad luck. after her fall, I stayed home with her to recover, which cost business for our construction company. Not to mention my truck motor blowing, losing our home and moving in with family, her car then getting repossessed. Everyone we knew, even family turned their backs, in disagreement with our choice to work things out in our marriage. The list goes on, until everything that we had worked for was gone. Most of our failure and loss in our lives before then, was due to our own choices, without putting them before the Lord. This time it was different, we put God before the choices. we were being refined, like gold in a crucible, put through the fire. Without God, all this would’ve made us fall apart, but with God, it has brought our family closer together than ever, we’ve grown in our faith, our love, and dependence on the Lord. relationships have healed, our daughter and best friend reads her Bible every day, and changed her genre of music from hip-hop to worship music. My wife and I got the chance to fall in love all over again and grow in Christ together. I am so happy to say, that after my wife’s fall, having her ovary removed due to a cancer scare eight years prior, being off birth control for four years following, to balance her hormones, and obviously after four years without birth control, thinking she could no longer conceive children. I am blessed to announce that she gave birth to our second daughter Karsen October 17, 2024! God is great!
God brings light to the darkness. That is why we’ve decided to focus our ministry around, helping those going through, or having been through similar circumstances. We believe our experience qualifies us in ministering to a more diverse congregation. We have a dream of reaching all of the black sheep, and to find every ONE lost out of the ninety-nine!
Lord my God, you are high and holy, yet you promise to be with lowly people like me. People who are crushed and dejected, you promise to revive those who are humble and contrite, those who depend only on you. Lord I repent into my many sins. I know that you are my creator, and you won’t give up the very people you gave spirit and life. Now heal me, help me, restore comfort to me, lead and guide me to do your will, grant me the peace you offer, through your son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen
