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Kidney Transplant Needed: His Grace's Letter

May 29, 2009
Our beloved brethren,
Peace and grace to all of you.
“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me’” Mathew 25:40.
Needs are not only financial, alms is not only monetary. Johnny has only one functioning kidney . . . and it is failing fast . . . Johnny Michaiel is a seventeen-year-old high school senior. He is a bright and very positive young man who is preparing to start collage in August, God Welling. Stanford University Medical Center doctors have told the Michaiel family that Johnny’s kidney will completely fail in 7 or 8 months. The Michaiel Family is praying to
God, looking for a miracle and for someone who might be able to donate a kidney to this wonderful young man so that he may have a future.
First and foremost, he needs your prayers that the Lord Jesus Christ helps him in carrying his cross. If the Lord Jesus Christ moves you heart, you have blood type O (positive or negative) and younger than 50 year old, male or female, and you want to donate one of your kidneys and give him hope, please contact Johnny’s kidney transplant coordinator nurse
Gerri James, RN, CCTC
Kidney Transplant Coordinator
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Stanford University Medical Center
770 Welch Road, Suite 100
Palo Alto, California 94304
650.498.4905 (phone)
650.723.4312 (fax)
gjames@lpch.org
If you e-mail or leave a phone message for Gerri: please leave your name, contact information, and specify that you are interested in donating to Johnny Michaiel.

Bishop Youssef of the Southern USA and Bishop Serapionof Los Angeles and its vicinities

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Righting of impiety.
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Last Updated: May 31, 2009