Joy Club
| President | Gwen Stevens |
| Recording Secretary | Brenda Hester |
| Treasurer | Angie Spruill |
| Corresponding Secretary | Marilyn Etheridge |
| Club Advisor | Marilyn Etheridge |
| Committee Members |
Gwen Stevens Louise Jordan Brenda Hester Angie Spruill Marilyn Etheridge |
JOY CLUB — Notes from Marilyn:
Dear members,
I came across this story that I would like to share with you on the importance of prayer. This comes from my “God’s Little Prayer Book” and it came to me when I needed it the most. So here it is:
Christian cardiologist Dr. Randolf Byrd had a great interest in knowing if prayer had a “scientifically measurable” impact on healing. He has said,
“After much prayer, the idea of what to do came to me.” Over a ten-month period, a computer assigned 393 patients in the coronary care unit at San Francisco General Hospital into two groups.
The first group was prayed for by home prayer groups. The second group was not remembered in prayer.
The home prayer groups were from various Christian denominations.
Those prayed-for patients differed from those not prayed for in these ways: They were five times less likely to require antibiotics; three times less likely to develop fluid in the lungs; and fewer died.
If the technique being studied had been a new drug or procedure, it would have been heralded as a breakthrough. Even Dr. William Nolan, the author of a book denouncing faith healing, said “It sounds like this study will stand up to scrutiny…Maybe we doctors ought to be writing on our order sheets, “Pray three times a day”. It doesn’t matter what skeptics say – prayer works.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. James 5:16