One Sunday afternoon in July, a Search & Rescue team member in Michigan received a call for help. Kellie,* a 72-year-old mentally handicapped lady with dementia, was missing. Thirty minutes later our Search & Rescue team was dispatched to begin a search.
By the time our team arrived, around 100 people including local firefighters and civilians, were already out looking for Kellie. The afternoon faded into evening as our Search & Rescue team, with the help of others, scanned the nearby woods and fields. Even with drones, dogs, and men, Kellie was still not found by midnight, when the search ended for the day.
The search resumed at 7:30 the next morning. Around 10:00, Kellie’s hairbrush was found near a path in the woods behind her house. Shortly after, a group from our team was assigned to check another nearby plot of woods. Before they started, they bowed for prayer, giving Kellie into God’s hands. As the prayer finished, the team looked up to see a drone dropping nearby. The firefighter operating the drone was running toward it. Kellie had been found! She was flown by helicopter to the nearest hospital.
Later, our team learned that if Kellie had been found too much later, she might not have lived because some of her organs were already beginning to shut down. What a beautiful testimony to the power of prayer!
*Not her real name.
