This is the pastor of my home church in Minneapolis, Craig, and his radiant wife, Michele. I took this photo a couple years ago at a special banquet and am glad it captured just a bit of their contagious passion for life.
Craig and Michele also have 8 children: Ian, Eva, Nicole, Tesana, Erik, Jennae, Sophia and Tasha who are just about the best kids you'll ever meet - full of life and radiance, just like their parents.
Craig and Michele really have a gift as parents and, where you and I might think of anything more than 2 or 3 children as chaos, they have knit their little flock together into a family of God-fearing, happy and healthy little souls who all seem to take care of one another. My goodness, Michele even home-schooled them all until just recently and loved it... but...
she had to stop because of the headaches and other strange things going on inside of her that didn't seem to have any explanation at all.
And last week Michele ended up in the hospital with swelling in her brain that had to be drained. The tests show that she has a glioblastoma brain tumor. Maybe I shouldn't have looked that up on wikipedia... maybe I would have more faith for her healing if I hadn't seen some of those discouraging "facts" and percentages.
I'm joining my Sojourn Campus Church family in a fasting and prayer chain for Michele's healing and restoration. We will not give up on this precious, godly woman, wife and mother.
Please join us in prayer for Michele.
