Sarah Brewer

Dave and Jen Brewer are dear friends of ours. We lived next to them for a while, and Dave pastors with me at our church. They have 4 beautiful children, the youngest of which is little Sarah, 18 months old. In the last few weeks, it has been discovered that Sarah's degenerating coordination and motor skills are the result of a tumor near her spine. While the tumor was successfully removed this past Friday (one answer to prayer was that it was not intertwined with her spine), there is a long road ahead to recovery. The Brewers are posting updates on their blog, and desire the prayers of friends and strangers alike. As Jen wrote yesterday,

First, let me say that we are so grateful for all your prayers. We keep saying we feel "carried" by them. ...Prayer is the greatest thing you could do for us! And let me say, your prayers are being answered. ...While there is still much grief and sadness, we are experiencing so much peace. A peace that really I cannot understand, other than it must be from God, because left to myself this would not be how I would be feeling. I also feel like the Lord has guarded our hearts and minds in the way that we have been able to process all this information in light of the cross. Even with all the information and news we receive, our hope is not in what all the doctors have to say, but rather our hope is in what Christ has already done, on the cross.