1 00:00:07,470 --> 00:00:16,218 TEEN PATHWAYS 2 00:00:16,747 --> 00:00:18,710 Hi, you guys! 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,950 You know, I was thinking, remember, earlier when we 4 00:00:21,990 --> 00:00:24,240 were talking about miracles and different things, 5 00:00:24,270 --> 00:00:28,770 I forgot to tell you that last week I was in St. Louis 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:33,500 and I had never been there before, and I was taking a car 7 00:00:33,540 --> 00:00:37,610 back to, a rental car back to the airport and I was being 8 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,110 followed by an other car that was going to take me back to the 9 00:00:41,140 --> 00:00:45,290 place I was staying, and the car that was following me overheated 10 00:00:45,330 --> 00:00:49,210 so we had to get off the freeway and it was like in the middle of 11 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:53,330 of an area that I didn't know and I didn't, it's like I wasn't 12 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,410 sure where we were and pulled off the free way and were in an 13 00:00:57,450 --> 00:01:01,770 area that was definitely like a projecs, it was a, to me it 14 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,890 looked like a dragonfasted gang in fasted and I was just standing 15 00:01:05,930 --> 00:01:10,600 there with me and Matt who is 17 and a guy, named Ben 16 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,120 we were standing there and thinking we should not be here, 17 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,860 it was not safe, and all the sudden the Holy Spirit came 18 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:19,540 over me and I just said, you know, everything was going to 19 00:01:19,570 --> 00:01:22,740 be okay and things are going to be fine, and so I looked at this 20 00:01:22,780 --> 00:01:26,540 kind of decapotated sliding last door, and was going to go 21 00:01:26,570 --> 00:01:30,100 up and see if they could help us with water and I walked up 22 00:01:30,130 --> 00:01:33,630 and there was two guys, propably 17-19 years old that looked at 23 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:37,480 me and looked at each other like I can't believe she's here, 24 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,300 it's just so crazy and it was like this really obvious thing 25 00:01:41,340 --> 00:01:44,180 that we all three knew that I was in that unsafe place 26 00:01:44,210 --> 00:01:47,290 and it was almost ridiculous, they almost laughed because 27 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:50,870 it was like so ridiculous and this woman in the background 28 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:54,420 said: "Oh, you need some water, I'll get it for you", you know 29 00:01:54,450 --> 00:01:57,370 because our car was overheated, so she gets water for us 30 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,630 and it was by the time we left we were hugging each other 31 00:02:01,660 --> 00:02:05,850 it was a cool thing, to me it was that, I had this sense that 32 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,980 God broke us down in order to meet this woman and 33 00:02:09,010 --> 00:02:11,560 and her 4 children, they had no furniture in their house, 34 00:02:11,590 --> 00:02:14,070 no furniture. I had used to ??? 35 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:16,370 that grows by the use of??? and they had to find me 36 00:02:16,410 --> 00:02:17,510 a piece of paper because I had no toilet paper. 37 00:02:17,550 --> 00:02:20,810 I mean it was like, it was so sad, nobody, in my heart I was 38 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,070 thinking nobody should live like this and they had 4 little kids 39 00:02:24,110 --> 00:02:27,180 you know it was just as really sad environment, 40 00:02:27,210 --> 00:02:32,040 but she said, she apologized for the house and I told her 41 00:02:32,070 --> 00:02:35,080 a little bit about my background and about being on the streets 42 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,480 and so we just hugged each other and it was just a cool thing 43 00:02:38,510 --> 00:02:42,200 and I just felt like God sent us there to meet this family, 44 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,890 especially to this 8 year old, and it amazed me, I think I was 45 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:49,390 so amazed that how much God takes care of us and then 46 00:02:49,430 --> 00:02:51,030 we were talking about miracles a little while and that made me 47 00:02:51,070 --> 00:02:54,510 think of that one and I forgot to share that. It made me think 48 00:02:54,540 --> 00:02:57,950 of yours, too, Joe, and when we think about what happened to 49 00:02:57,980 --> 00:02:59,320 you, have you told these guys? 50 00:02:59,350 --> 00:03:00,240 Not yet, no. 51 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,130 You should tell them. If you want to hear a story, this is 52 00:03:04,170 --> 00:03:06,010 just incredible. 53 00:03:06,050 --> 00:03:07,690 Tell us. 54 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:08,230 Let's hear it. 55 00:03:08,260 --> 00:03:13,950 Okay. Well, when I was 14 years old, I was in a motorcicle 56 00:03:13,990 --> 00:03:19,640 accident, where I lived in Idaho and I went off about of 57 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:26,170 I went down about 50 feet off a clifflike embankment, 58 00:03:26,210 --> 00:03:31,540 and it was a Friday and my sister went to academy 59 00:03:31,580 --> 00:03:35,510 in Boysee Earl in Colorado and she was at home, even her 60 00:03:35,540 --> 00:03:39,890 friend were home and they were to ride with me 61 00:03:39,930 --> 00:03:44,210 and they had left before I did I had tours to do at the house, 62 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,910 and then and then we were going to go, ride down to the Snake 63 00:03:48,940 --> 00:03:53,720 river, because we were a couple of miles away from it and they 64 00:03:53,750 --> 00:03:58,490 left before I did, and I chopped wood and stacked in and 65 00:03:58,520 --> 00:03:59,430 everything and then my parents had just... 66 00:03:59,460 --> 00:04:01,340 you haven't been chopping with this weekend, 67 00:04:01,370 --> 00:04:03,210 now that I know that, that's a good thing, 68 00:04:03,250 --> 00:04:05,020 go ahead, 69 00:04:05,060 --> 00:04:09,600 and my parents, my dad left to go to work, and then my mom 70 00:04:09,630 --> 00:04:14,110 was leaving just as I was leaving, to go catch up with 71 00:04:14,150 --> 00:04:18,560 my sister, and her friend, so I got on my motorcicle 72 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,660 and I started to ride and I can't really remember, my view 73 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:26,730 of it is like from the air, it's like I see it, I don't live it, 74 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:31,980 it's like I see myself riding the motorcicle and then 75 00:04:32,010 --> 00:04:36,640 I can remember vaguely this certain parts of it, I was 76 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:41,280 riding and then, it's like my view goes back into me, 77 00:04:41,310 --> 00:04:44,730 and I'm right in front of the edge of the cliff, 78 00:04:44,770 --> 00:04:48,600 and then everything goes black. And when I wake up 79 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,430 and I'm lying on my stomach and I'm looking at the sky, 80 00:04:52,470 --> 00:04:55,160 Oh! 81 00:04:55,190 --> 00:04:59,090 And my head was completely turned around and I was sitting 82 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:00,360 there and I started calling for help. 83 00:05:00,390 --> 00:05:03,220 So your head was twisted around, 84 00:05:03,250 --> 00:05:09,680 and I started calling for help my sister and her friend 85 00:05:09,710 --> 00:05:14,410 her friend saw me go off and we lived by, it was like a revene 86 00:05:14,450 --> 00:05:19,120 in some spot it was like shallower, in some spots it was 87 00:05:19,150 --> 00:05:23,790 deeper, and I usually in the shallower parts I just jump off 88 00:05:23,820 --> 00:05:25,850 and do it right round in the bottom and stuff, 89 00:05:25,890 --> 00:05:30,570 but my sister's friend told her that I got off this embankment 90 00:05:30,610 --> 00:05:35,260 and my sister said: "Oh, he does that all the time, it's not 91 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:36,130 a big thing." 92 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,130 He does it all the time. It's his head stays usually in 93 00:05:39,170 --> 00:05:41,150 the same direction. 94 00:05:41,190 --> 00:05:44,660 And they didn't know where I was they didn't know what I was 95 00:05:44,690 --> 00:05:48,280 doing, they thought I was still riding around and my bike was 96 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,700 louder theirs, so they killed theirs and they were waiting 97 00:05:51,730 --> 00:05:55,080 to see if they could hear my, hear me riding around 98 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,160 and they couldn't hear my motorcicle so they went back, 99 00:05:57,190 --> 00:06:01,570 to where I was and I was calling for help and they ran down there 100 00:06:01,610 --> 00:06:04,180 and my sister was like screaming at me and call 101 00:06:04,220 --> 00:06:06,720 call me an idiot and stuff and she's like: "get up!" 102 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,070 "get up, you have to get up!" I tried and I was calming her 103 00:06:10,110 --> 00:06:12,990 down and I was like: "it's okay, it's alright. I'm going to be 104 00:06:13,020 --> 00:06:15,870 okay", just I just can't get up on my knees I need you to call 105 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:18,300 for an ambulance and I'm like, and turn me over, 106 00:06:18,340 --> 00:06:20,870 Did you tell her to turn you over? 107 00:06:20,910 --> 00:06:23,410 yeah, I told her to turn me over, 108 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,250 did she, you know, because in my mind I'm thinking that 109 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:27,050 head injuries and neck injuries are not supposed to be touched 110 00:06:27,090 --> 00:06:34,050 the got yield at my... 111 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:34,970 Could you feel anything in your body? 112 00:06:35,010 --> 00:06:36,130 could you feel your body? 113 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,230 I was completely paralized from my throat. 114 00:06:40,260 --> 00:06:43,650 I can imagine. I just can imagine, because in my mind 115 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,530 I just think: did it hurt, did you feel anything? 116 00:06:46,570 --> 00:06:49,590 It's like when you're sitting down on your knees 117 00:06:49,630 --> 00:06:52,580 and your legs fall asleep that tingly feeling 118 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:55,860 that's what it was like, that was my hole body, it was like 119 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:58,710 It gets to me as this thing is bad 120 00:06:58,740 --> 00:07:02,830 I can't move, I can't go anywhere I'm just sticked to the ground, 121 00:07:02,860 --> 00:07:06,910 and I can hardly get up and I want to move but I'm just just 122 00:07:06,950 --> 00:07:10,210 looking around, just my eyes are the only thing that are moving, 123 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,840 that's amazing, 124 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,340 And try to calm your sister, it's like I can just see 125 00:07:15,380 --> 00:07:18,810 and you can imagine looking at him, her brother going on, 126 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,840 this is not okay. Something is not okay. 127 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,360 Yeah, wow! 128 00:07:25,390 --> 00:07:27,140 And it's like, I kept on trying to get up and I think 129 00:07:27,170 --> 00:07:29,950 I concentrated really hard but nothing was happening, 130 00:07:29,980 --> 00:07:32,730 I get no response for anything. And so I just told her: 131 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:36,600 "go and call an ambulance and just do whatever, 132 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,760 then I was like, I ended up in a blackout for a little while, 133 00:07:39,790 --> 00:07:42,270 and then I come back in and then I blackout. 134 00:07:42,310 --> 00:07:46,800 And so when I came to again, there was like a guy there, 135 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,960 Wait! Can I tell this part of the story, because I heard from 136 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,440 someone, not the part that you were calling the ambulance, 137 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,680 Joe is there, your neck is broken, right? With your neck 138 00:07:59,710 --> 00:08:03,170 broken, like in 4 places, your neck is broken, it's a big 139 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:07,360 thing, and so he tells his sister to go call an ambulance, 140 00:08:07,390 --> 00:08:11,120 well, there was an ambulance, a rescuechopper in the air, 141 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,820 going to an other accident. Going to an other accident. 142 00:08:14,850 --> 00:08:18,980 Joe's was priority, so they were set up and in the air and almost 143 00:08:19,020 --> 00:08:23,110 over him, and it was just like to me when I first heard that, 144 00:08:23,150 --> 00:08:25,100 and everything, I got thrills and I thought: what an 145 00:08:25,130 --> 00:08:28,710 incredible God! Just the fact that Joe was going to need this 146 00:08:28,750 --> 00:08:30,030 and so let's get ready. 147 00:08:30,070 --> 00:08:34,170 Isn't that perfect time? It's so incredible. 148 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:35,840 So incredible. 149 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,790 Yeah, I was like that. And when I woke up and then there was 150 00:08:40,820 --> 00:08:44,900 a guy there, and he was just an officer or like, and he came 151 00:08:44,930 --> 00:08:48,770 to check out the situation, and he was there, and he 152 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:52,600 to walk down and saw me and he called back and said if there 153 00:08:52,630 --> 00:08:54,670 were any need he were to help and what they thought, 154 00:08:54,710 --> 00:08:56,680 and so that was when the helicopter, they called for the 155 00:08:56,710 --> 00:09:00,680 helicopter, and the ambulance got there, they started to patch 156 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,660 me up and gave me oxigen and then they howed this shot 157 00:09:04,690 --> 00:09:07,030 that was developped just a couple of years before, 158 00:09:07,060 --> 00:09:13,230 I got it into my wreck, with this binochord injury the more it 159 00:09:13,270 --> 00:09:17,490 swells, the worst the damage is, and so what they did 160 00:09:17,530 --> 00:09:21,030 this shot was developped to stop the swelling and they got me 161 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:24,530 just in time to where, they gave me this shot and this swelling 162 00:09:24,570 --> 00:09:26,330 stopped where it would have been so bad, 163 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:32,090 but they got there and they put me out and they gave me some 164 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,470 pills to sleep and then loaded me into the helicopter 165 00:09:35,510 --> 00:09:38,830 Were you aware yet that this was an incredibly big deal 166 00:09:38,860 --> 00:09:40,260 that how injured you were? 167 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:45,050 I had no idea. And I woke up in the hospital, 168 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,620 and I was on a table and my parents were there and my mom 169 00:09:47,650 --> 00:09:50,180 was crying, and they were talking to some guys, 170 00:09:50,220 --> 00:09:51,690 I assume that it was the doctor, 171 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:56,730 and they were in there and I just felt I did something 172 00:09:56,770 --> 00:10:01,260 wrong, I felt really guilty, and the doctor came up to me 173 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:05,760 he told me, he was trying to explain to me what he was 174 00:10:05,790 --> 00:10:07,910 about to do to me that he was about to draw these holes 175 00:10:07,950 --> 00:10:10,830 in my head, and put something on me, and I was like: 176 00:10:10,870 --> 00:10:13,720 whatever you know, just send me home in the morning. 177 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,290 That's right. Forgive me and I'm sorry. 178 00:10:16,330 --> 00:10:20,190 And then my dad walked up and I was like: I'm sorry, dad, 179 00:10:20,230 --> 00:10:22,970 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do all this. 180 00:10:23,010 --> 00:10:25,690 And he was like: it's okay, it's alright. 181 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,210 How could you imagine, he propably just wanted to hold you 182 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,380 Oh, yeah, they, but they couldn't do anything. 183 00:10:30,410 --> 00:10:33,610 Nobody could touch me or anything. 184 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:39,300 And so then they put me through casquecans and everything, 185 00:10:39,340 --> 00:10:43,510 and found out everything that was wrong, and they sent me 186 00:10:43,550 --> 00:10:47,650 to a surgery and I was awake right before as they were 187 00:10:47,690 --> 00:10:50,690 wheeling me towards the surgery and we were going in an 188 00:10:50,730 --> 00:10:54,330 other room, and there was 2 doctors there, one of them had 189 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,630 that shot to put me out and the other was like with all these 190 00:10:58,660 --> 00:11:01,009 little tools ready and everything. So I was like, I just 191 00:11:01,009 --> 00:11:02,664 didn't care though. 192 00:11:02,664 --> 00:11:05,420 Did you want to, because to me, I think that I wonder if 193 00:11:05,460 --> 00:11:07,770 my mind would just be racing a hundred miles and 194 00:11:07,810 --> 00:11:09,140 I would think: are you going to through my head? Excuse me, 195 00:11:09,180 --> 00:11:11,520 it's just going to hurt? 196 00:11:11,550 --> 00:11:16,480 I had so much medications and stuff in me that I just 197 00:11:16,510 --> 00:11:21,140 I didn't think, I didn't care, whatever they wanted to do. 198 00:11:21,170 --> 00:11:24,600 And so they put me up for that and when I woke up 199 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,000 I see you and I like had all these tubes in my throat 200 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,270 going down my nose and my throat one they fed me and one they 201 00:11:31,310 --> 00:11:32,960 took out all the waist and everything, 202 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:37,750 and I was in there and there was all sudden all these people 203 00:11:37,780 --> 00:11:40,670 like my family is there, my sister from California and my 204 00:11:40,710 --> 00:11:45,860 cousin were alla of a sudden there and I was like: what are 205 00:11:45,890 --> 00:11:50,170 they doing here? Because they had to get here so fast. And I really 206 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,440 had no clue as to what was going on, untill I got in the rehabit 207 00:11:54,470 --> 00:11:55,710 which was like a week and half, two weeks later, 208 00:11:55,750 --> 00:12:00,300 Did you have the seriousness of it? 209 00:12:00,340 --> 00:12:05,130 I had no idea. There were just people there, nothing just, 210 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:09,740 reeled my mind like at work, it wasn't like all together, it was 211 00:12:09,770 --> 00:12:13,470 like just ending out, I was mostly asleep for, I was in, I 212 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:17,030 see you for three days and then I went to an other high care 213 00:12:17,070 --> 00:12:20,560 unit and they kept me in there, and they started to work with me 214 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:25,410 a little bit and keep me from freezing out my tendency 215 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:31,640 keep my body from locking in and not being able to move 216 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:37,410 anymore. And then about a week and a half brought me out of 217 00:12:37,450 --> 00:12:38,560 there and then they took me to the fourth floor, 218 00:12:38,590 --> 00:12:42,530 from the sixth and then, which was a rehab unit, 219 00:12:42,570 --> 00:12:46,450 Wait, wait, wait! Because I know an other story, an other part 220 00:12:46,490 --> 00:12:50,340 part of that story, and that is: has the pastor prayed for you 221 00:12:50,380 --> 00:12:50,720 yet? 222 00:12:50,750 --> 00:12:51,020 No. 223 00:12:51,060 --> 00:12:52,030 Okay. Sorry. 224 00:12:52,060 --> 00:12:56,300 That was during this time, I remember all churches pretty 225 00:12:56,340 --> 00:13:01,160 much everywhere were praying for Joe, almost 25 hours a day. 226 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,990 They had prayerchains going and my mom would go to these 227 00:13:06,020 --> 00:13:11,380 prayer chains and would pray for Joe for hours on and... 228 00:13:11,410 --> 00:13:15,260 That's incredible! 229 00:13:15,290 --> 00:13:16,720 It's amazing what prayer can do. 230 00:13:16,750 --> 00:13:20,140 So there are you in rehab. 231 00:13:20,170 --> 00:13:25,900 I'm in rehab and they got me down there and they put me 232 00:13:25,930 --> 00:13:30,490 in my bed and it was like the worst saying, I had what they 233 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:35,860 call hypersensitivity, and what it is, it's like your nerves 234 00:13:35,890 --> 00:13:40,010 like they responded to any touch or anything, like more than 235 00:13:40,050 --> 00:13:43,870 it's like, when they touched me, I felt like they just hit me. 236 00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:47,690 And it's like if water came, if cold water hit me, it touched 237 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,820 me, it was like they just took they just stabbed me, 238 00:13:51,850 --> 00:13:55,880 so people, nobody could touch me, it just hurt so bad, 239 00:13:55,910 --> 00:14:06,030 it was horrible, with the worst saying, you have to go through 240 00:14:06,060 --> 00:14:10,330 this, the pain was incredible. 241 00:14:10,370 --> 00:14:12,170 I can imagine having a drop of water, you feel like you'd been 242 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,940 stabbed. It's like your nerves must have been just wrong. 243 00:14:15,970 --> 00:14:21,730 Yeah, and so I got in the rehab and that was now on the fourth 244 00:14:21,770 --> 00:14:25,670 floor and I was waiting for, nobody worked that weekend, 245 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:29,260 that I got in there, and the doctor came in on a Sunday 246 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:32,400 night and he explained to me the wheelchair that I was going 247 00:14:32,430 --> 00:14:36,320 to be in, and told me that I was propably never going to walk 248 00:14:36,350 --> 00:14:42,170 and that I would never, I would be lucky if I could propably get 249 00:14:42,210 --> 00:14:44,880 my arms back, then I'll be limited and so... 250 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,530 What did you think? What were you thinking? 251 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:52,800 He like buttered it up like like the doctors do to like, 252 00:14:52,830 --> 00:14:55,350 this is just what we think, 253 00:14:55,380 --> 00:14:57,690 You know if someone could run through the hospital and seeing 254 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,960 you telegrams and balloons and I'm not sure they could butter 255 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:05,490 that up. To me, I would think, you would: "excuse me, I'm going 256 00:15:05,530 --> 00:15:09,240 to be in a wheelchair limited use and I would..." 257 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,980 Well when you're lying there and the guy is talking to you, 258 00:15:12,010 --> 00:15:15,690 you're looking for any kind of help, you can get, it's just 259 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,360 natural, so if he says, you have a 10 % chance you can 260 00:15:19,390 --> 00:15:22,100 get it back, it's like: I'm going to take it, 261 00:15:22,140 --> 00:15:24,770 that's my temper so I'm going to go for it. 262 00:15:24,810 --> 00:15:30,450 But they talked to my mother, and they had told her that 263 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:36,050 that, you know, to start looking after a wheelchair, 264 00:15:36,090 --> 00:15:40,880 and stuff, that I could operate with my mouth, and that I was 265 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:45,930 going to have to, there was going to be a lot of changes, in our 266 00:15:45,970 --> 00:15:51,380 house, that was what she was expecting. And then shortly after 267 00:15:51,410 --> 00:15:55,180 that weekend I'd started doing therapy and stuff and my mom came 268 00:15:55,220 --> 00:16:00,090 to me and she said, we were just new Christians at that time, 269 00:16:00,130 --> 00:16:04,960 and we got to some seminars, and we got baptized in the 270 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,770 Adventist church, and my mom had... 271 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:09,920 You were new Christian? 272 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,400 Yeah. Yes. 273 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,110 Not that it would matter, if you're an old 274 00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:16,890 Christian, when you brake your neck, but it's just, to me, 275 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,630 I think that's hard because I didn't know how much faith I had 276 00:16:19,660 --> 00:16:23,020 as a new Christian if I could, that just amazes me. 277 00:16:23,060 --> 00:16:29,550 And my mom came to me and she said, she asked me if I remember 278 00:16:29,580 --> 00:16:35,140 anything about, hearing about or learning about the annointing 279 00:16:35,180 --> 00:16:41,630 service. With the oil and, for healing, and I said no. 280 00:16:41,670 --> 00:16:45,280 I remember a little bit about it, I don't remember much, 281 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,900 she's like you know where they come and pour oil over you and 282 00:16:48,940 --> 00:16:54,470 if you want we can get Roger Dundon, the guy that gave 283 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:57,440 the seminar that brought us into the church, 284 00:16:57,470 --> 00:17:00,340 and the pastor that I had for ???, Bob Mix 285 00:17:00,370 --> 00:17:05,660 a couple other, my dad, my uncle, the pastor for the Neaple 286 00:17:05,690 --> 00:17:10,510 the church, Dan Hudson and just a bunch of men to come, 287 00:17:10,540 --> 00:17:14,620 and do this annointing service and I was like, anything that 288 00:17:14,660 --> 00:17:18,700 was just what I was looking for, I can get used to anything and 289 00:17:18,740 --> 00:17:20,700 I said: yeah, let's do it. 290 00:17:20,740 --> 00:17:22,630 Did you call people from all over the places? 291 00:17:22,660 --> 00:17:25,350 People from Washington, Bridgeview Oregon, 292 00:17:25,380 --> 00:17:28,770 and they went to set... 293 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:35,090 they all came and it was that following week and she asked me 294 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:38,840 like on Wednesday in the middle of the week, by that week 295 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:43,540 and that was, everybody was there, they came and everybody 296 00:17:43,580 --> 00:17:48,030 got there on that night, I don't remember what day it 297 00:17:48,060 --> 00:17:52,450 was, because I was usually pretty busy and I didn't really 298 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:57,490 keep track but they got there and everybody came and there's 299 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:02,490 like 35 people there, that I knew and they all came in and they 300 00:18:02,530 --> 00:18:09,050 were talking, just sitting there, it was like a big party in my 301 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:14,230 room, there's time for like visiting hours, everybody had 302 00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:21,870 to go back, and they were all staying at my house at Neaple 303 00:18:21,910 --> 00:18:25,580 Idaho, so everybody had to leave and I stayed there that night and 304 00:18:25,620 --> 00:18:29,250 I was just like, you know, a lot of things were going through my 305 00:18:29,290 --> 00:18:32,760 mind, I was kind of depressed, because I couldn't go home with 306 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,230 everybody else, and just be with the rest of the family and have 307 00:18:36,270 --> 00:18:37,920 a good time, and so I was kind of depressed about that. 308 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,920 I was just wondering if it was going to do anything. 309 00:18:40,950 --> 00:18:47,200 And I was frustrated and a lot of things were going through my 310 00:18:47,230 --> 00:18:49,710 mind and the next day came.. 311 00:18:49,750 --> 00:18:51,020 Had they prayed yet? 312 00:18:51,060 --> 00:18:53,670 No, they had not. The next day came. 313 00:18:53,710 --> 00:18:55,180 It's my favourite part. 314 00:18:55,210 --> 00:18:59,250 The next day came and they all came back and it was about 315 00:18:59,290 --> 00:19:06,140 it was in the afternoon or close to that and everybody was there 316 00:19:06,180 --> 00:19:10,900 and they came and they put me in a stretcher that they could wheel 317 00:19:10,940 --> 00:19:15,630 and they took me down on the 4th floor where I was staying, there 318 00:19:15,660 --> 00:19:19,840 was a chapel, they wheeled me down inside the chapel 319 00:19:19,870 --> 00:19:23,970 and there was about 68 men I don't remember how all the 320 00:19:24,010 --> 00:19:27,020 guys got about it, but they were all there and went into the room 321 00:19:27,060 --> 00:19:31,910 with us and they gathered round me and everybody else waited 322 00:19:31,940 --> 00:19:36,760 outside and they closed the doors and pastor Bob Mix 323 00:19:36,790 --> 00:19:39,100 was one that led out the service for??? 324 00:19:39,140 --> 00:19:43,480 he prayed first and they went round in a circle and each one 325 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,830 prayed and they poured the oil on me, and up to that time 326 00:19:47,870 --> 00:19:51,580 I had not had pretty much anything in my body, 327 00:19:51,620 --> 00:19:56,660 and right after they finished praying and saying amen, 328 00:19:56,700 --> 00:20:00,450 I sat up, I was like, I just reached up and just started to 329 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,870 get up and my dad was there and he started to cry and he was 330 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:07,520 reaching for me, he was ready to pick me up and walk me out of 331 00:20:07,550 --> 00:20:09,490 there. 332 00:20:09,530 --> 00:20:12,680 You know that Pastor Stan, when he was telling me 333 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,610 that story about praying for you in the hospital and you sitting 334 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,080 up, he cried telling me that story. 335 00:20:18,110 --> 00:20:24,360 That he was so affected, everybody to be there and 336 00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:27,620 praying for you and watching you sit up, they said the surgeon 337 00:20:27,660 --> 00:20:31,330 was saying there was no way, and there's no even possible 338 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:36,440 way to hope, that he's going to, that's incredible, incredible. 339 00:20:36,470 --> 00:20:40,380 And it was like I sat up and I reached up but it was like 340 00:20:40,410 --> 00:20:44,490 I had no energy or anything, it was like I had the ability, 341 00:20:44,530 --> 00:20:46,700 but I just didn't have what it took, you know, get up 342 00:20:46,740 --> 00:20:53,190 out of bed, so I sat back down, I was kind of frustrated, you 343 00:20:53,230 --> 00:20:57,050 know, I wanted it now and I wanted everything, but I had 344 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,680 to work for it and it was like but I knew, I knew, like I told 345 00:21:00,710 --> 00:21:04,280 one day I told, my therapist walked in, my physical therapist 346 00:21:04,310 --> 00:21:07,190 and I said: I'm going to walk, and he said: "Oh!" 347 00:21:07,230 --> 00:21:10,800 I said: "No, I can walk", I said: "Stand me up and I walk." 348 00:21:10,830 --> 00:21:13,960 and so it was like a couple days later I used to be up and I 349 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,770 walked. It was like I knew I can do it. I just knew I can do it. 350 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,540 And so slowly after that it was like I started to be able to move 351 00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:27,290 my hands, and grasp things and move my legs and just slowly 352 00:21:27,330 --> 00:21:32,320 inch by inch everything just started to come back to me and 353 00:21:32,350 --> 00:21:34,980 When something like that happens, what do you think about 354 00:21:35,020 --> 00:21:40,690 as far as God, I mean you know, to me, I... 355 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,490 I have a verse that I ran across when I was looking in my Bible, 356 00:21:43,670 --> 00:21:44,700 Do you mind reading it? 357 00:21:51,214 --> 00:21:58,710 It says: "For in this hope we were saved, now hope that is 358 00:21:58,750 --> 00:22:00,980 seen, is not hope for who, hopes for what he sees, 359 00:22:01,010 --> 00:22:04,780 that if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for His 360 00:22:04,810 --> 00:22:08,100 patience." Romans 8:24. 361 00:22:11,180 --> 00:22:15,220 So you just said that you had to know that the prayer worked 362 00:22:15,260 --> 00:22:19,270 and it wasn't just a matter of time. I am amazed. I am amazed. 363 00:22:19,300 --> 00:22:22,970 The first time when I heard that you were up again, 364 00:22:23,010 --> 00:22:26,270 you know, because everybody was praying like you said, 365 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:30,030 everybody was like praying all over the place in different 366 00:22:30,070 --> 00:22:33,190 states, and so everywhere and so they said: "Oh, Joe and his 367 00:22:33,230 --> 00:22:36,320 family is going to come to the church and give the testimony, 368 00:22:36,350 --> 00:22:40,010 and so I was there, and it was a sadness a little bit of 369 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,990 a sadness, because I work in a medical field, I'm a psichnurse 370 00:22:44,020 --> 00:22:48,240 but I'm still in hospitals, and I knew that you would propably 371 00:22:48,270 --> 00:22:51,660 be really massed up, and if I would have canes and all kind 372 00:22:51,690 --> 00:22:55,040 of stuff, and all of a sudden, when you came up and walked 373 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,870 down the isle to get up on the platform on the top, 374 00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:00,630 you were just so handsome, you were so handsome, 375 00:23:00,660 --> 00:23:05,070 and so, you know, everything was so cool and you looked 376 00:23:05,110 --> 00:23:07,220 so good, there was not even a limp I don't think, 377 00:23:07,250 --> 00:23:10,590 and I was just, my mouth dropped open, I was just amazed. 378 00:23:10,620 --> 00:23:12,780 You know what God heals, he heals right. 379 00:23:12,810 --> 00:23:16,830 Exactly. Exactly. 380 00:23:16,870 --> 00:23:21,540 Basically at that time I was just like, I was really weak, 381 00:23:21,570 --> 00:23:26,810 and it took me about a year and a half to gain my strength back, 382 00:23:26,850 --> 00:23:30,260 while I was in the hospital, I lost about 45 pounds, 383 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:33,640 and I was like chunky, I was built better than anyone 384 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:38,210 else, that's just the way my family was, the men in my family 385 00:23:38,250 --> 00:23:42,970 would all, I was athletic and I was just really hard men that 386 00:23:43,010 --> 00:23:48,020 that I was like crockier about it, I was like we're sure of 387 00:23:48,050 --> 00:23:53,030 ourselves, and it was like we were girvind or something like 388 00:23:53,070 --> 00:23:54,620 I got it in the wreck that was part of the hardest 389 00:23:54,650 --> 00:23:58,380 thing for me, to know that wasn't going to be able to do 390 00:23:58,420 --> 00:24:02,850 all the things that I had done before, to look in the mirror 391 00:24:02,890 --> 00:24:07,280 and see this scronny little guy, that used to be really built 392 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,750 I didn't know you before, and everyone I met, you just 393 00:24:11,780 --> 00:24:16,050 look like a handsome, you know what I mean, I don't even see 394 00:24:16,090 --> 00:24:20,320 an accident, I don't even that, you just look so handsome, 395 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:22,060 do you have any scarrs or anything? 396 00:24:22,090 --> 00:24:26,040 I have a scarr on my neck, right there, where they did 397 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,340 the surgery, 398 00:24:27,380 --> 00:24:28,580 4 inches long, 399 00:24:28,610 --> 00:24:36,090 That's the whole thing? It's just a little thing, amazing. 400 00:24:36,130 --> 00:24:38,970 And I have a scarr on my forehead but you can't see it, 401 00:24:39,010 --> 00:24:41,670 because it's beneath my hair. 402 00:24:41,710 --> 00:24:42,100 That's amazing. 403 00:24:42,140 --> 00:24:43,150 Do you still ride motorcicles? 404 00:24:43,180 --> 00:24:44,960 Yeah. 405 00:24:44,990 --> 00:24:46,920 Does your mom know? 406 00:24:46,950 --> 00:24:48,160 Yeah. 407 00:24:49,110 --> 00:24:52,270 I'm a mom and I think: does your mom know to which you're 408 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:54,940 laughing, do you have to? Because you're friends. 409 00:24:54,970 --> 00:24:58,590 We love the others, it's just like I'll be looking up, 410 00:25:03,770 --> 00:25:06,020 I'm telling her. 411 00:25:06,060 --> 00:25:08,240 Everyone knows. 412 00:25:08,270 --> 00:25:11,650 Yeah, that's right, everybody knows. You know, I can't 413 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,620 sometimes when I think about what God is capable of, 414 00:25:15,660 --> 00:25:19,530 in my mind I'm limited, it's like something happens and I think 415 00:25:19,570 --> 00:25:23,870 it's such a big and it's such a, God will never be able to do 416 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:26,660 anything with this and then I hear a story like you 417 00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:30,120 and I just am amazed, because you propably, 418 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,560 let's think about the mustardseed. If you have this 419 00:25:32,590 --> 00:25:34,920 faith as a mustardseed, you can move mountains. 420 00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:40,060 Yeah. And you know sometimes I think that I bet it's not 421 00:25:40,090 --> 00:25:43,320 just a saying, I bet it's true. 422 00:25:43,350 --> 00:25:47,830 With God all things are possible, to nothing you can't limit God. 423 00:25:47,870 --> 00:25:50,810 Joe's living and walking proof of it. 424 00:25:50,850 --> 00:25:56,460 I have a question: is that with an experience like that, 425 00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:01,180 did your relationship with God how did it improve? 426 00:26:01,210 --> 00:26:08,680 It was on rock soil, it was like everybody thought how can 427 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,610 you not completely, totally believe in God, 428 00:26:11,650 --> 00:26:19,690 or something like that. But it's like the Israelites and Moses 429 00:26:19,730 --> 00:26:21,660 and stuff, all the things that happened 430 00:26:21,690 --> 00:26:24,380 they parted the Red Sea, there was tremendous things 431 00:26:24,410 --> 00:26:26,110 and they had to be grumbling enough yet. 432 00:26:26,140 --> 00:26:29,340 It's not like I have a perfect relationship, 433 00:26:29,370 --> 00:26:32,540 But I believe in Him, I believe Him healing me, 434 00:26:32,570 --> 00:26:33,990 Do you know He loves you? 435 00:26:34,030 --> 00:26:35,930 Yeah, totally. 436 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,640 Amazing things. I just think that when I hear miracles 437 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,320 like that, it makes me know like a helicopter being in the 438 00:26:43,350 --> 00:26:46,890 air and everything being exactly at the right time, 439 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,390 and God knew that you had to get that injuction, 440 00:26:50,430 --> 00:26:53,980 so that the swelling wouldn't happen, so you wouldn't have 441 00:26:54,010 --> 00:26:57,350 more severe damage, and when you think about, everything 442 00:26:57,390 --> 00:27:01,790 that had to happen in order to have the outcome and it's 443 00:27:01,830 --> 00:27:05,220 justan amazing, an amazing realization, that every hair 444 00:27:05,260 --> 00:27:08,620 on your head's counted, in this parable, that it doesn't 445 00:27:08,650 --> 00:27:12,320 fall without God's knowlege, to me, I'm overwhelmed 446 00:27:12,350 --> 00:27:16,680 when I get in touch with that, when I understand that 447 00:27:16,710 --> 00:27:20,970 to some level, that God is there always and aware of what we're 448 00:27:21,010 --> 00:27:23,580 doing always, He's able to heal us no matter what the situation 449 00:27:23,620 --> 00:27:26,320 is. Thank you for sharing us your story, Joe, 450 00:27:26,350 --> 00:27:32,960 what I want to say to any of our viewers, is that God can handle 451 00:27:32,990 --> 00:27:36,320 anything. Nothing is too big for God, even a broken neck. 452 00:27:36,350 --> 00:27:39,640 I'm amazed at that. See you next week on the "Teen pathways" 453 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,850 and thanks for joining us and if you have any miracles, 454 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,900 write in and share with us. Bye!