.

We are expecting
the miracle to be completed!

. Janet returned to the doctor in June hoping to find out when they would do the surgery to graft tendons in her knuckles that were sheared during our accident in April.  The doctor had been waiting for the skin grafts to stretch enough for her to make a fist.  When he came in the room, Janet showed him she could make a fist. 

. He then asked her to straighten her hand.  He looked surprised at how straight she was able to do her hand.  He said, "You should not be able to do that.  Your hand is healing itself."

. Janet told him that we believe in the power of prayer.  He wants to wait two more months to see how much more her healing progresses, but said it looks like she will not need the tendon grafts at all.

. We are trusting God for a complete healing!

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Motorcycle preacher hurt

BY DANIEL SKOLFIELD
Odessa American Newspaper www.oaoa.com
April 20, 2007 - 5:47PM

Motorcycle chaplains find their pulpits on the highway, but two of Odessa's own will be off the road for a short while.

The Rev. Duane Gryder and his wife Janet are recovering from injuries sustained in a Thursday motorcycle accident in Wichita Falls where they were ministering at the time.

"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."

The Rev. Darrell Trout of Harvest Time Church, the Gryder's home church, said he hopes people will donate funds to help the couple get back on the road and continue ministering after they heal.

"He's only got one bike and the medical expenses and the loss of that bike are pretty big," he said. "The motorcycle is really the bread and butter for his ministry."

"We want to get them back in the saddle again, if you will, on their bikes to keep going," he said.

WANT TO HELP?

Harvest Time Church in Midland is accepting donations for the Gryder's medical expenses and motorcycle repairs.

Contributions can be mailed to

Chaplain Duane Gryder
%Harvest Time Church
P.O. Box 8726,
Midland, TX 79707.

Call the church office at 563-5683.