Keep Praying for Eric LeGrand

A year after he was paralyzed in a Rutgers football game, Eric LeGrand is able to rotate his shoulders and stand for 40 minutes with the help of a machine. He also has feeling in many parts of his body, and can flex muscles. Soon he will be on tredmill teaching his legs how to walk again.

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Keep praying for Eric!!!!

Good News for Eric LeGrand!

Keep Praying for Eric to Walk Again!

(From NJ.Com)

Paralyzed Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand tweeted that he is feeling twitches throughout his body, a sign LeGrand feels shows he is making progress.

Late Monday, LeGrand tweeted: "Twitches going throughout the body, coming back."

Since being paralyzed from the neck down in a game against Army on Oct. 16, LeGrand has been taken off a ventilator, starting eating solid food and moved to his aunt's house in Jackson, where he has continued rehabilitation. LeGrand said he has been able to move his arm to the side.

Despite his injury, LeGrand, 20, has continued taking classes at Rutgers as he works towards his degree.

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Trinity House at Rutgers University

Today my son Edward graduates from Rutgers University. In honor of that here is a look at the campus ministry at RU.

At Trinity House, you'll find a wide open space for conversation
about Christian faith and the doubts that come along with learning and changing.
We seek always to grow into greater love, deeper faith, wider grace together.

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Pray for Eric LeGrand

Rutgers University football player Eric LeGrand was paralyzed in a collision last Saturday on the playing field. Eric is from Avenel, NJ and played High School football for Colonia High School, right on the border with Rahway. Here is an excerpt from the Star Ledger.

At 4:46 p.m. last Saturday, when his neck and helmet smashed against the shoulder of an Army kick returner, the ordinary college life of Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand was throttled to its core.


According to neurologists, however, that brief, cataclysmic moment, was only the beginning of his injury. In spinal-cord cases such as his, a cascade of physiological crises is unleashed by the initial blow. Assessing the damage caused by these injuries will go a long way toward determining whether LeGrand will ever walk again, neurologists say.

Read the rest of the article: http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2010/10/rutgers_community_awaits_news.html

There is hope: http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2010/10/adam_taliaferros_message_to_ru.html

My son will be graduating from Rutgers soon. He will be the tenth person in my wife’s family to get a degree from RU. We are very shaken by this. Please pray for Eric and ask God for a miracle.

Peace,

Pastor Bill

Stelton Baptist Church selects interim pastor for post

The Search Committee for Stelton Baptist Church, in Edison, has selected an interim pastor for the post, which becomes effective after the departure of Pastor Kathleen Tice, on Aug. 31. A Princeton Theological Seminary graduate, Min. Tamara Davis will officially begin her duties at Stelton on Sept. 12th. However, Min. Davis will be visiting Stelton on Sept. 5th, when the Rev. Dr. Dale Irvin, president of the New York Theological Seminary, will preach at Stelton.

Min. Davis, who will be ordained in the coming weeks by ABC-NJ, is coming to Stelton after being associate minister of both Shiloh Baptist Church and Macedonia Baptist Church, respectively.

As well as being in the completing her Master's of Social Work from Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, Min. Davis earned her bachelor of arts degree from Kean University, in 1999.

Among her other experiences, Min. Davis served as a chaplain intern for Carrier Clinic, in Belle Mead, and as a missions and activities coordinator for American Baptist Woman's Ministries.

Min. Davis was chosen by Stelton's Search Committee, which is comprised of: Search Committee co-chairs Thomas Ng and Charles Holt, Rev. Miles Austin, Pat Martin, Cassandra Gilliam, and Jim Purcell.