Virgie and all,

Thanks for the prayers for them, after building two of their last houses 
and  etc. to now renting a two bedroom apartment with two teenagers and a 
dog  it has to be tough, but they'll get past this hurdle no doubt.

Brad

At 03:32 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote:
>Hi Brad,
>I just read this message.  A miracle for sure.  I am praying for these 
>people.  It gave me chills reading about Chris.
>Prayers and blessings for them.
>
>Virgie and lady Hoshi
>doing business at
>
>www.vunderwood.ktostemtech.com
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad D" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 1:03 PM
>Subject: Re: brads miracle friend.
>
>
>Hey Jen,
>
>You might have heard this story before but I'll mention it again for the
>newbees on list:.
>
>I've got a  fishing pal of mine that is known as the miracle of St. John's
>Hospital here in the Twin Cities.  This happened long before I met him and
>hopefully they have had other miracles occur since then to drown out the
>title but nonetheless his miracle, was nothing short of, well? Miraculous.
>His name is Chris, and at the time was a police officer in a small town
>outside of the Twin Cities. His dad and step mom were children's pastor of
>a church which was a full spirit, charismatic, Pentecostal or whatever
>label you want to put on it, but they believed in the power of healing.
>Chris was fairly newly married and I believe had a little one too at this
>time. Chris had a beat partner who served in Desert Storm, sort of the
>appetizer of the current war we are drowning. umm, that we are engaged in
>now.  Chris started not feeling well, growing steadily worse, I'm not sure
>of all the symptoms but they couldn't figure out what in the heck was wrong
>with him. Finally he'd gotten so bad he was hospitalized. The nearest they
>figure is the partner had brought bad a virus from the Middle East and
>Chris caught it from him and it was  affecting him terrible. He had gotten
>so bad they had him on life support and oxygen and everything and things
>did not look good for Chris because the doctors were doing all they knew to
>do to help him, but they didn't know what they were dealing with so
>treatment was poke and hope and the clock was ticking down. His wife was
>not a Christian at the time, or her family, but Chris's dad and step-mom
>like I said were and they darn well were not letting their son check out
>without doing all they could. Chris's dad at one critical point I believed
>laid hands on him and prayed despite staff not wanting him there, in fact
>all he could grasp was his toes.  One night sleeping on the couch his dad
>had a dream/vision and saw what he believed to be a vision that said his
>son will be OK. It's been a while since I heard what his vision was so I
>don't recall it but it was a strange kind of dream in need of
>interpretation which he claimed he had, and also claimed that his son would
>be OK. His dad had gathered all the believers he knew who could come and
>lay hands on and pray for Chris, Chris's wife not being a Christian was
>like appalled, a gasp at the thought of it, and refused they do this thing.
>Well they laid hands on him and prayed nonetheless. Chris at this point was
>all the worse and they did not expect him to make it. His lungs were crisp
>or permanently damaged due to the length and strength of oxygen he was on
>to try to keep him alive and even with that his muscles and body began to
>atrophy. Soon the doctors had to make a choice; they could not leave him on
>life support any longer because it was beginning to do more damage than
>potential good. Family and friends continued to pray. The doctors finally
>began to remove the life support off of him and prepared the family for
>what was inevitable. Much to everyone's surprise however, the more he was
>removed from oxygen, the better he did, the more life support that was
>removed, the better he did. The day after he was removed from life support
>Chris walked a bouquet of flowers to the nurse's station in thanks for
>their support. He went from just a few turns of medical equipment
>nobs  toward death to walking in a matter of a day or two. The doctor who
>cared and treated Chris for the entire time he was under his care, which I
>think was told me near $100,000, forgone his fee  as he told them he did
>nothing to save the man and it was clearly a true miracle and he could not
>take any payment for that.
>
>Chris is in perfect health today, probably a decade and a half later. His
>wife is a good Christian woman. And please if you have read this far,
>please  pray for these two as  due to varying circumstances are struggling
>through a foreclosure and financial troubles as well some challenges with
>their teenage boys. They are just good folks and a reminder of "There for
>the grace of God go I".
>
>Brad