Sunday, June 19th, 2011

Every Sunday at 11:00am families at TIRR gather together for prayer wordship with different prayer groups from the Houston area. Today we were excited to meet & pray with Choir members Joe & Dell Mara Lovell from the Joel Osteen-Lakeswood Church from Houston.

Here we met Sue Marsh the mother of Chad who was in a very unfortunate Traumatic Brain Injury about 8 months ago. While vacationing in the jungles of Costa Rica Chad & his wife Eden were on a White Water rafting trip & while sitting on a raft all of a sudden Chad looked up & was hit on his head by big falling big branch. It took about 15 hours to get him out of the jungle & to a medical hospital. He had been asleep for the past 8 months & is experincing multiple complications. His newly wed wife, Eden & mother Sue Marsh along with other family members have been by his side throughout this long journey. We are asking for you to please keep him in your prayers as the family continues to look for medical answers to help their loved one before having to make the hard decision. They are very strong in faith but also understand what is God's will & what is Medicine. David & I decided after Ashley wearing her cross for over a year now, it was time to pass on Ashley's cross & after praying & with the help of our chaplain Henrietta, Sue Marsh was very excited & in tears to receive such a small but meaningful gift.

Story behind Ashley's cross. This cross was given to us by David's sister Elsa Rodriguez back in May of 2010 when Ashley was asleep at the Edinburg's Children's ICU room. It was given to Elsa by a mother who's son (DPS Officer) was involved in a car accident & he wore this cross while he was asleep, he woke up & recovered from his injuries. She told my sister-in-law that it was given to her while her son was very critical. It came from the Holy Land from an Olive tree. She had full faith & prayed with it faithfully. When my sister-in-law told her friend about Ashley's accident & condition she gave her son's cross to Elsa to give to us to place on Ashley. We immediately placed it on one of many bracelets that Ashley had received while she was asleep & also faithfully prayed. Well Ashley woke up & is now walking & now eating very well also & in God's time relearning to do everyday things that are the most simplest to us. Thank you My Lord!! We placed it on one of Ashley's bracelets that I had bought at the Cristian book Shop that reads P.U.S.H. which stands for Pray Until Something Happens!!! We Ask for your continued prayers for Ashley & all the special people & families here at TIRR especially all the therapists & doctors.