Mal came home on Thursday! We were so excited for her to be home finally...along with Karen and MiMi! We had an amazing service today at church organized by Jana Hardage. She did a great job pulling it all together and making sure things ran smoothly. We opened with a slideshow that I put together that basically covered the last three months in pictures from the car wreck to the waiting room while she was in PICU those first three weeks to her first bites of food then on to her first trips outside all the way through rehab at Baylor. It's amazing how much stronger and healthier she became across the three months and you can see her get stronger throughout the pictures. Jackie Tucker sang "Praise You in this Storm" to start the slideshow and then "Waiting on You Lord" played for the remainder. She did a very good job!
Also in the service, Tom Compton, our youth director, spoke about how Mal has impacted the youth and our church and though it was tough for him to do that as Mal's youth director...he did a great job! Another dear friend of ours, Brian Nivens, who coaches at Magnet Cove, spoke about how even kids at other schools have been impacted by Mal's testimony throughout this ordeal. He spoke from the heart and did a great job as well.
The youth group sang, Call on Jesus, which Mal loves and even though many are close friends of hers and were very emotional today they stepped up and did a great job and Mal really seemed to enjoy it. Jana then spoke and she sang "Jesus Bring the Rain" which is an awesome song and Mal had posted the words in her status one night. Jana is truly one of those people who can minister in music and has been such a blessing to me since she came to Caney!
We didn't leave much time for Bro Ro to preach but he did a great job of tying Mal's situation into his abbreviated sermon. He preached briefly on how we are supposed to be there to suffer when another member suffers and rejoice when another member rejoices. I know we do that at Caney..we brag when the bragging needs to be done and Caney has certainly stepped up and helped bear our burden since Mal's accident.
Here's the slideshow from this morning....
That is an amazing slideshow...it took my breath away more than once. She is so beautiful...and her smile! Keeping her and your family in my prayers =)
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