I was born January 2, 1967 in a small town west of Fort Wayne, Indiana named Columbia City in a hospital that my great, great, Uncle Dr. O.V. Schuman had agreed to have built by donating $50,000 (about $500,000 in 2016 dollars) to Whitley County. In order to build the hospital the county had to raise $50,000 in matching funds by a certain date and they just barely met the deadline.  Prior to the new hospital being completed people had to go to the Wolf Lake hospital but in 1951 the Whitley County Memorial Hospital opened at last.  Dr. Schuman was a caring man who once treated a man who had a farming accident and knew that the man was not well off so he only charged him 25 cents. Later someone mentioned to Dr. Schuman that 25 cents did not cover the cost of the bandages and gauze that he had used on the man.  Dr. Schuman replied “Twenty-five cents is all that he can afford to pay – I would rather bill him twenty-five cents that he can pay and make him feel like a man than charge him more and make him feel like a deadbeat.”  I…

In life we grow up and most of us hope for the best but as Forrest Gump once lamented “Momma always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates….you never know what you’re gonna get.’ ” If we are raised in a typical non-Christian family there is little or no faith for health or healing other than visits to the doctor or hospital.  If something happened to your health, the only way of getting better was to go to the doctor and hope that he or she could “fix” you, provided you could pay the bill.  Without medical intervention, you were given to a life of pain and misery until you die. If we are raised in a typical Christian family there is occasionally a glimmer of faith but most people are taught that God must sovereignly decide to heal so pray that He will heal you and wait to see if you get lucky.  Fortunately, I was raised in a Christian home that had some faith for supernatural healing. I never knew exactly how God worked or that there was a more effective way to see people healed – a much better way.  It is somewhat of a conceptual…