Breathe Again Benefit a Success

This past Saturday the OAR church put together a fund raiser for our Minister's wife, Janet (Cystic Fibrosis or CF and is in need of a double lung transplant). We had been praying long and hard about it since the idea was put out there, and let me just say. WOW! It was an amazing success. There was a silent auction, a variety of singing groups and bands, food, fellowship, and a video about Janet made by a local college student. Everything went so great. There were a whole lot of people there, the building was packed. Getting the singing groups to start on time went really well. Everything just flowed very smoothly. There were a lot of great items that were auctioned off. Let me just put it this way, in a town of about 13,000 people (which of course wasn't the attendance Saturday) there were $13,000 raised. CAN I GET A AMEN SOMEBODY!!!!! It really was an overwhelming experience to say the least to see a community come together to help someone in need. There was Baptists, Methodists, Church of Christ, Black, White, you name it, and nobody cared because we were all there to help and to give praise and honor to the Father.

One of the highlights of the night was when a little 2nd grader named Joshua came onto the stage to sing. Shelia gave an introduction before he sang and said that he had asked someone "Is Mrs. Janet going to die if she doesn't get here new lungs" the reply was yes to which he said "That's OK, the doctors told me I was going to die after I was born". "It's ok if she dies because then she will get to be with Jesus." He then came onto the stage and without any music or any backup he sang two songs. I am sure there were many teary eyes in the audience after that one. I took a picture of him, but I will have to put it up some other time.

There was much prayer, as I said before, that went into this event, and God truly blessed it in so many ways, so there is no way anyone who was there could talk about how great it went and not give praise and glory to God because of it. He is truly an awesome and Wonderful God. If anyone happens to read this and would like to donate some money to help Janet out as she waits on "the" call that her new lungs have arrived, Click on the link below to Email me and I will let you know how you can do that. God Bless.

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