Grappling with God...Continued from page 5

Mary and her family got radically saved because of that youth group. Mary went off to Bible College and met Dave Boyd. They married and entered full time children’s ministry, and today they are the head of the children’s department for the whole Assemblies of God, where they perform Kids Crusades and Kids Camps for thousands of kids every year. And thousands of kids get saved and filled with the Spirit every year, because someone grappled with God.

Speaking of Dave and Mary Boyd, have I ever told you their story? About five years ago Dave was working in the attic of his garage one afternoon, and Mary was in the house.

While Mary was in the house she heard a horrible crash in the garage, and she ran out to see what had happened. She looked over and here was Dave in a puddle of his own blood. The garage was open, and her next-door neighbor who was a medic in Vietnam, saw Dave on floor. He ran over and told Mary to grab some towels and call the ambulance. Mary came out, frantic, and called for the ambulance. The ambulance arrived, they put Dave in and rushed him to the hospital, and Mary followed in her car.

As she was driving, she started to call people and tell them that Dave was in a horrible accident and that they needed to start praying for him. Mary got to the hospital and met with the doctor. The doctor told Mary that they examined Dave and his head was okay, it was just a bad gash.

What bothered them though, was when they x-rayed him his elbow was completely shattered and they needed to perform emergency surgery to remove the bone fragments.

The doctors spent hours with a pair of tweezers pulling out pieces of fragments. His elbow was completely gone. The doctor came out, and this was like a Friday and said that they needed to give Dave’s arm time to heal because on Monday they were going to fuse his arm together.

Mary told the Doctor what Dave did for a living and how they used puppets. The doctor told Mary that Dave would never be able to do that again, because his arm would be permanently fused in a 90-degree angle.

Mary went home and did some research on the internet and found out that if Dave had a rubber elbow then he could do some of the movements. So Mary went back to the doctor and inquired about the possibility. The doctor said that they had thought about that, but Dave didn’t have enough arm or elbow left for that type of procedure.