Pray for Luke

I asked Mike Jones at church last Sunday to forward me this photo of Steve and Chuck in their colorful threads to post on the blog here as a "funny." (Mike suggested the caption, "So who's the real "cool" church?" But now the photo of Steve comes with a real prayer request attached.

On Monday the Johnson family were at Annette's grandparent's home in Thatcher, and while playing near the fire pit in the back yard, Luke fell into some hot coals and burned his hand pretty badly. The emergency room in Thatcher decided to send him to the Burn Center in Phoenix, giving him pain killers to sustain him for the trip. Annette says he did well on the trip and the nurses at the Burn Center all commented on his brave behavior. All his fingers were blistered, but the thumb,palm,and forefinger were most severe. As of Annette's Facebook posting on Tuesday, they were being held over at the center on Tuesday night and surgery was being discussed.

Here are a few sentences from Annette's story (if you're on Facebook, you can read the whole story from Steve's page, under "Notes.")

"We are praying that no surgery will be necessary. Thank you all so much for the prayers. Our continued prayer request would be that he not require surgery and that he not get any kind of infection.

Thank you so much to everyone for your help and prayers. We can definitely see God's hand in all of this. Luke's injury could have been much worse, but because of the quick reaction by all my family they were not. Sherri has been a lifesaver by watching Andrew in the waiting room for hours while we tended to Luke and opening her home to us as a homebase. My mom and aunt/uncle/cousin kept Hannah for us. My in-laws have gotten the city of Tucson praying and are picking Hannah up in Clifton tonight. My mom is coming to help us with Andrew in the morning. My grandparents sent us off with some money for the expenses. Friends are offering left and right to help. We are truly blessed in so many ways. Thank you all so much."