Motor-cyclist answers pastor’s prayer
NZPA-AP Greenville, South Carolina
The pastor of a Greenville County church says her prayer for a sign from God was answered when an errant motor-cyclist rode down a flight of stairs and crashed through a door during a church prayer session. “I said, give me a sign that the doors are open and sure enough he opened that door,” said Ethel Spearman, pastor of Today’s Faith Bible Church in Western Greenville County. A state highway patrol trooper, Dale James, said the motor-cyclist, Hayne Jarrett jr was trying to stop at an intersection on Friday evening when the
machine’s brakes failed. Mr Jarrett swerved to avoid hitting an oncoming car and went into the church parking lot between two parked cars, narrowly missing both. “He had to make a split second decision,” the trooper said. “He did a heck of a job riding the bike.”
Mr Jarrett rode the motor-cycle down 12 steps and crashed through the wooden door at the bottom of the steps, Mr James said. Mr Jarrett was treated and released at St Francis Community Hospital. "Sometimes you ask God for an opening of a door. God just tore that door right open,” Mrs Spearman said.
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Press, 4 February 1986, Page 15
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