This couldn’t wait...

Jerry, serving in the snack room at VBS

As of the writing of this post, it’s 3:00 am. I woke up, realizing I hadn’t actually organized strategic prayer for Jerry Slagle yet, and this is no small matter. The original plan was to send out a VBS recap email, but that can wait until next week.

Jerry has been fighting cancer for more than two years. Recently, he was given a very sad and scary report from his doctors that he only has limited time left, less than a year. However, two weeks before he got the report, a person on our prayer team had a dream that we believe was from God, telling us that “we need to pray for Jerry.” 

Here is the text from that dream:

Two weeks ago I had a very intense dream about Jerry Slagle. 
In the dream, I knew that he was in a life or death scenario (I assumed the cancer). I was outside somehow gathering people together. We (church members) began urgently alerting each other one by one. Instinctively we began to form a path with people strategically staggered across from each other on either side of the cleared path. Jerry began to walk down the path as the members reached out toward him and prayed. The atmosphere was so heavy that people were weeping, buckling over and going to their knees. Not a word was spoken throughout the entire dream. I woke up with a start and said, “We need to pray for Jerry.”


I believe we need to set up a prayer chain, strategically spreading ourselves over each day of the week so that every day someone is praying and fasting for Jerry. You can fast however you determine. I will be fasting from after dinner Tuesday nights until after the Wednesday night prayer meetings. Let’s call out to the Lord for a miraculous healing. Let's sign up to pray and fast for Jerry for the month of August (but go ahead and start now). I'll send out an update at the end of August, and if he's not yet miraculously healed, we can sign up for another month.

Here is the link to the Google spreadsheet titled Prayer Chain For Jerry Slegle where you can find a day that you can commit to praying for Jerry, and add your name and email. Let’s make sure we cover every day.  

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