Damaris and I were at Word of Life on Fri, 7/30/10.  The staff do a weekly Christian rodeo for the community.  That night, a terrible accident occurred where a horse lost its footing and fell on its rider, Graham Stump, while roping a calf.  The horse and rider were both on the ground for what seemed like a long time.  The horse got up, the rider did not.  He received a severe concussion, but no broken bones, miraculously.

Now, 11 days later, the doctors are saying that his brain injury is “very bad,” although he squeezed the therapist’s hand on command today.  The doctors have braced his wife, Randi, for the worst:  he may never “wake up.”  She is asking everyone to pray and believe God for a full recovery, and thanking the Lord for every small step that she is seeing.  She is keeping up a Facebook page with updates.

Graham and Randi have been married for 7 years, have two small boys (1 just now turning one) and love the Lord, serving in ministry at WOL full-time.

Facebook | Praying for Graham Stump

This last spring, our daughter, Ashley (27), was able to go with us to Word of Life Argentina (Palabra de Vida) and fell in love.

Not like that… with the people there.

They loved her, too, and invited her to come and teach jr. high and high school math for their next semester in the bilingual missionary school.  Click “more” and let her tell you in her own words: (more…)

From time to time Dámaris and I hear those extremely comforting words, “We have been praying for you.” Sometimes they come from friends, sometimes from people that we have never met. There is no way to measure the benefits that we have received from those prayers, as the Lord has either protected us, prospered us, or simply kept our luggage on the same flight.

Knowing that the Lord hears all of our prayers, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (Heb 11:6), we feel that some of you would be glad to pray for us, if you knew (more…)