A few hours after our daughter, Sidney, was born doctors discovered she had a large hole in her heart. They told us they couldn't guarantee she would live and that she would require open heart surgery. David and I never had a peace in our hearts about her undergoing surgery and we immediately put all our faith in the Lord that He would heal her little heart without surgery.
We became members at DBC when Sidney was 7 months old. Bill Pensworth's Sunday school class rallied around us and Sidney as prayer warriors and constantly encouraged us that God could and would heal our baby.
We saw a pediatric cardiologist every week and each week there was no change in the size of the hole.
David and I prayed over her every day and we knew the faithful prayers of our "family" at DBC were going up as well.
When Sidney was one and a half, we went back to the cardiologist for a weekly visit. This time he did the sonogram and a physical exam, then he stopped. He said he needed to repeat the tests. Then he told us the hole in her heart had closed and it looked like someone had taken her defective heart out and put a perfectly healthy heart inside her little body.
We told the doctor that we knew God had given us our "little miracle" that we had prayed for and sought so diligently. He told us there was still a small gap at the bottom of her heart and he wasn't sure it would close without surgery.
We took Sidney back for a check-up on Oct. 27. The cardiologist found not only had the gap closed but the tissue had actually formed a little knot of tissue at that space. He said the hole not only closed it reinforced itself.
God is so good and is still in the miracle business. We thank our DBC family for their love, support and prayers.
David & Gretta Johns
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