{"id":4669,"date":"2014-11-18T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T14:18:21","slug":"pumc-celebrates-the-gift-of-life-111614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=4669","title":{"rendered":"PUMC Celebrates the Gift of Life (11\/16\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4674\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Charles-Satyra-_IMG_1177.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4674\" class=\"wp-image-4674\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Charles-Satyra-_IMG_1177.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Satyra _IMG_1177\" width=\"212\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Charles-Satyra-_IMG_1177.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Charles-Satyra-_IMG_1177-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Weatherby &amp; Satyra Oberfrank<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In our Narthex on Sunday, an organ donor and an organ recipient shared their experience with our congregation.\u00a0 One person can save or enhance the lives of more than\u00a050 people.\u00a0 More than 123,000 Americans are waiting for life saving organ transplants.\u00a0 Tragically, 18 people die each DAY because the organs they need are not available.\u00a0 But anyone can help save lives by deciding to be an organ and tissue donor.<\/p>\n<p>PUMC\u00a0has a special connection and appreciation for this Gift of Life.\u00a0 Several years ago, one of our members was undergoing kidney failure and was in desperate need of a life saving transplant.\u00a0 A search was made.\u00a0 Many times a suitable donor is not found in time, but in our case, one was found.\u00a0 And miraculously, the donor was from Pitman and her mother is a member of our church! \u00a0\u00a0God&#8217;s hand intervened and a life was saved.<\/p>\n<p>And so today, Charles Weatherby (the recipient) and Satyra Oberfrank (the donor) share a special bond of life, and they bear witness to the miracle of God\u2019s divine intervention in our lives.\u00a0 God answered our prayers for Charles, Satyra and their doctors.\u00a0 But what about the others who are waiting for an organ donor?\u00a0 Who will God use to answer those prayers?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u00a0=\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0 =\u00a0\u00a0 =<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To learn more about\u00a0 the Gift of Life, visit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donors1.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.donors1.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Organ-Donor-Banner-_IMG_1176.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4670 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Organ-Donor-Banner-_IMG_1176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Organ-Donor-Banner-_IMG_1176.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Organ-Donor-Banner-_IMG_1176-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our Narthex on Sunday, an organ donor and an organ recipient shared their experience with our congregation.\u00a0 One person can save or enhance the lives of more than\u00a050 people.\u00a0 More than 123,000 Americans are waiting for life saving organ transplants.\u00a0 Tragically, 18 people die each DAY because the organs they need are not available.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evrpt","category-mission-aroundchurch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4681,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}