Updated 8/11: Please Pray for Dr. Gary Parrett and his Family
Dr. Gary Parrett, Professor of Educational Ministries and Worship at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and one of our speakers, was injured in a serious bus crash in South Korea earlier today where 12 passengers died. Please pray for Dr. Parrett, his family and all those involved.
UPDATE (7/4): He (Dr. Parrett) has been transferred safely to his new hospital in Seoul. He has been evaluated by doctors there and his prognosis is better than previously thought. Although he is still unconscious, his vital signs are currently stable and the bleeding in his brain seems to have stopped. Thank you, everyone, for your continued prayers. (Via his daughter, Alisa).
UPDATE (7/5): Dr. Parrett's family has set up a website to provide more information about his condition and progress.
UPDATE (8/11): Dr. Parrett is scheduled to be transferred back to the U.S. this Sunday (8/15) via an air ambulance. Please pray for a safe transition for him and his family, who will be traveling on a separate commercial flight.
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Prayers For Dr. Parrett
He will continuly be in my prayers and his family also.
Mary
It Is Well
In my prayer to Dr.Parrett comes the Psalmist prayer to which I will sing, and praise God for Dr. Parrett and his family.
Blessed is the one who considers the poor!
In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him;
the LORD protects him and keeps him alive;
he is called blessed in the land;
you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.
The LORD sustains him on his sickbed;
in his illness you restore him to full health.
As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against you!”
My enemies say of me in malice,
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words,
while his heart gathers iniquity;
when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
All who hate me whisper together about me;
they imagine the worst for me.
They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him;
he will not rise again from where he lies.”
Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
But you, O LORD, be gracious to me,
and raise me up, that I may repay them!
By this I know that you delight in me:
my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.
But you have upheld me because of my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!
Amen and Amen.
As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food
day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
have gone over me.
By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, my rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause
against an ungodly people,
from the deceitful and unjust man
deliver me!
For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
why have you rejected me?
Why do I go about mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
Send out your light and your truth;
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy hill
and to your dwelling!
Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the lyre,
O God, my God.
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
O God, we have heard with our ears,
our fathers have told us,
what deeds you performed in their days,
in the days of old:
you with your own hand drove out the nations,
but them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
but them you set free;
for not by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did their own arm save them,
but your right hand and your arm,
and the light of your face,
for you delighted in them.
You are my King, O God;
ordain salvation for Jacob!
Through you we push down our foes;
through your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
For not in my bow do I trust,
nor can my sword save me.
But you have saved us from our foes
and have put to shame those who hate us.
(Psalms 41 ESV)
May Our Lord and God Christ Jesus give peace that goes beyond understanding to his family and to all the student.
In Christ Jesus,
Prayson
I will
I am so sad to hear about this tragedy. Yet God is in control. That is our great strength in these unaccepted incident. My prayers are with you Dr. Gary Parrett and for his family. Mya the God of peace be with you all.
PhilipLazar
Dr Parret
Since the sad new in Korea I have been praying for brother Dr Parret. Antonio D Romualdo, AG minister in Tampa, Florida.