Church Prays For Dre'

Dre on his mother

   Last 's Bible Study Class had to be suspended and instead a prayer vigil was held for Bro Jn Baptiste's grandson, Dre, who was suffering from complications arising from Acute Gastritis.
 Gastritis describes a group of conditions with one thing in common: inflammation of the lining of the stomach. The inflammation of gastritis is most often the result of infection with the same bacterium that causes most stomach ulcers. Gastritis may occur suddenly (acute gastritis),  as in the case of Dre,or it can occur slowly over time (chronic gastritis).
 The prayer vigil started with a bible reading selected by Pastor jai and read by Ashleigh Herman. The passage is from  Isaiah 53:1-5 New International Version (NIV)

1 Who has believed our message
    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
² He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
    and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

⁴ Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.

This was followed by prayer, songs and blessings. The child was in the presence of all this. oh what a spritual session it was.