We have a new mailing address.

We now office in Wichita Falls, Tx

 

 

For those of you who may not know yet, Janet and I were involved in a motorcycle accident on April 19, 2007

Here is how it was described in the newspaper:

“"It happened in the afternoon about 4 p.m.," Duane Gryder said by phone Friday. "I was getting on I-44 and the throttle locked on (the bike), and it started charging really fast."

The carburetor malfunction caused a shift in the bike's balance and Duane said it turned on its side. Although they weren't yet going at a highway speed, the Gryders and the bike bounced off the cement retaining on the entrance ramp.

"There was gravel on the road there, and it just came out from under us," he said. "We're pretty bruised up with road rash."

The motorcycle wreck didn't break any bones, but the 54-year-old Assemblies of God minister said his wife would need surgery to regain use of her fingers and skin graphs on her knuckles.

"She has a tendon severed on her ring finger that will have to be reattached," he said. "She's skinned from her wrist all the way up her arm."

Duane Gryder said he is also partially skinned from scraping the highway and has pain in his back and left hip. Even with the injuries, he has a bright look at the incident.

"There's a reason ... something good is going to come from this," he said. "Immediately there was someone there taking care of us ... the car right behind us was a registered nurse and the car behind them was an ER technician."

 

 

 

Our trusty steed did not fair as well as we did.  The bike slide down the road on one side and then raised up and hit a concrete retaining wall.  The damage exceeded the value of the bike so it is a total loss.  We will be back on two wheels as soon as we can get what we need.

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We had to cancel our services for May and are trying to reschedule our services over the next few months to stay as close to Wichita Falls as we can since Janet has to be here during the week for treatment.

 

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Janet’s wounds are healing up nicely and we will find out later this month when they will be able to do the tendon grafts on her knuckles so she can regain use of her two middle fingers on her left hand.  Her recovery is expected to take approximately six months.

I am easily able to walk without a limp now (or pain pills) and my road rash is almost totally gone

 

“…something good is going to come from this!”

I hope you can picture this:  Janet was sitting there with a nurse holding my doo rag for compression on her bleeding wrist.  She was leaning against a concrete retaining wall and the EMT had placed a neck brace on her when she looked up at me and says “Duane, something good is going to come from this!”  It was at that moment that my attitude changed.  From that moment on we have had opportunities to minister at every turn.   From staff at the hospital to others who would see us and ask what had happened.  We have prayed for others and seen God answer them.

So don’t feel sorry for us as we go through this ordeal because something good has already been coming from this.  When I asked Janet later why she said this at that moment, she told me that she wanted the devil to know that he was not going to win.  Praise The Lord

 

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THANKS TO ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE HELPED AND BEEN THERE FOR US DURING THIS TIME OF RECOVERY

SEE YOU AT GENERAL COUNCIL

 

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