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Finding my faith.......
This is awesome! I serve in Garden Patch (3-year olds) and I look forward to the day I get to meet Allie.
My nephew, whom we are raising, had Kawasaki Disease when he was little. He is now almost 15. As we didn't have him at the time he had the disease - I know very little about it - would you consider emailing me out of this forum to discuss it? I've always wanted to know more, to know what things to watch for, should the disease ever rear it's ugly head again. I know so little about it, and no one can tell me who the out-of-state doctor was that treated him to research his condition properly.
I began attending GCC in 2002, shortly before my nephew came to live with us. I had turned away from the church, and was doing my own thing prior - went thru a bad divorce, and just really didn't care about anything..except my family and kids. The circumstances that brought my nephew to us were tragic, but they also brought me to look for a church. I had heard so much about GCC but had never attended. When I first began attending - my husband wouldn't go either - same reasons, had been forced to go as a youngster, while his parents did not. About every three weeks, I'd ask again, and not make a big deal if he said no. One day I realized that, while I'd been asking my husband, I'd not been asking God to help me get him there. I started praying on it. My husband is a BIG Nascar fan. Within two weeks of me praying, GCC had a "Driven" series, which was Nascar based, and he came. First his attendance was spuratic, at best - but I was satisfied that at least some of the time he came. Then he started coming weekly. The first Women's retreat I went to, he skipped church, surprisingly, the next two I attended - he went to church, without me. What a great testimony to God.
I'm so glad things have worked out for you the way that they have. Everyone says that things happen for a reason, and in God's time. I believe this, because I have seen, experienced, and heard of tragedy after tragedy, ending in God's amazing grace - and your story is no different. He got your attention with Allie, and now that God has your attention, you, Allie, and your husband, are learning the love of Christ.
Welcome to the Family!
Penny
peanutspenny@sbcglobal.net 
