There is a family that I would like to share with you about. I do not know them personally but they are believers and they are in need. The town that I am from is rather small and the children of this family are students at the school where my mother teaches, so there is a small connection.
On Tuesday December 20 this family of 8 (1 grandmother, 2 parents, and 5 children) were sleeping when a fire started in their manufactured home. By the time they woke up the house was engulfed in flames. Curtis who is 19 and the eldest of the children helped to get mom, dad, and 3 siblings out of the house but kept going back into the house to try and find his grandmother. The second, Jeremy who is 17 helped his sister Makiah (9) escape from a backdraft, she is in the worse condition. All but one of the children is in the hospital with burns, mostly on theirs hands, feet, and their hair (Curtis lost all of his) Makiah will be hospitalized for around 6 months. The grandmother did not make it out of the house.
Please pray for this family. They lost everything. Curtis did not have a bank account, the money he earned from his job he saved, hidden in his room. They have concerns about losing jobs due to recovery and where they will live and how they will rebuild once they are well enough to take those steps. As I said before, they are believers and they trust the Lord. Their faith is evident to all who visit them and talk with them. There are many people who care for them that do not know the Lord so please pray that God will be glorified through this severe suffering.
Pray also that they will heal both physically and emotionally. I am brought to tears often when I think about the trauma that they all experienced when fighting for their lives, literally. Thank you for praying!
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