A MIRACLE FOR MARIUS
In 1997, I was in Arad, and Marius’s mother came to visit me, and brought Marius with her. She told me that, unless something was done, Marius would not live much longer.
Marius was born with hydrocephylus, sometimes known as “a waterhead baby”. At the time he was born, Romania was still under Communist rule. However as odd as it may sound, they had a more stable economy at that time, than they did right after the collapse of Communism in 1989, and therefore had better access to some of the needed medical supplies.
When Marius was born, they had implanted a “shunt” in his brain to keep the fluids from accumulating there. The problem was that the shunt that was implanted in Marius years earlier had began to deteriorate. His mother told me that there were no shunts in Romania, and even if there were, they could not afford one.
I told her the same thing I always tell people—I told her I would promise her 2 things. One, is that I would do all that I could do, but, two, whatever happened to help Marius would be strictly because God brought it all together.
I came home, and the first Sunday I was home, I shared this need as a prayer request in our chapel services here at Fairhaven. After the service, and friend of mine, Mr. Mike Mashburn, told me that he was going to contact someone to see if they could help. Two days later I received a phone call from a pediatric neurologist in Metairie, La. He told me that he wanted to help this young man but that he thought we needed to move quickly. He faxed me a list of the information he needed. I faxed it to Romania, and Marius was taken for testing in order to obtain this information. Within a few days, we had the information the doctor needed, and I sent it to him. In a couple of days, I had the shunt, and items needed to implant it. We had it delivered to our ministry in Romania via courier. A few days later Marius underwent the surgery to implant the new shunt.
A few months later, when I was back in Romania, I went to visit Marius, and bought him a new bike. We continue to praise God for His faithfulness!!