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I asked some of you to pray for Andy Smith and his fiancee Katie Johnson last year, when Andy was in a terrible motorcycle wreck in my hometown, Bakersfield.  Now I’d like to share an update on Andy’s story, and it’s worth the few minutes it takes for you to read this article from the Bakersfield Californian newspaper. It’s amazing to hear how far Andy has come on the long and difficult road to recovery from an accident that almost fatally burned him alive, and it’s hard to imagine how difficult the whole process has been for Katie, who my family has known over the years. To quote the article, the doctors “never expected him to heal this fast or come back this strong” and Steve Downs from Riverlakes Community Church, the one I grew up in that Andy is a part of, points out, “I know that God has the capacity to take something that seems so bad and make it into something glorious and I’ve seen that transformation these past months in Andy.” Read the full story.

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