Timmerding Family, I wanted to ask for everyone's prayers for the young girls and their families affected in the car accident involving students from Notre Dame on Friday. Some of you don’t know this, but I am a soccer coach at NDA and Lisa was a coach there until 2008. Seven out of the eight girls involved in the accident were involved in the soccer program at one point in their high school careers including Marie Schafftstein who died in the accident. Lisa and I both know many of these girls closely and they need all the prayers we have. I know it has been a rough year and a half in the family, but I’m hoping we still have some prayers left to give to these girls and their families in their time of need.
These girls are all honor roll students who happened to be great athletes as well. Four of the eight are going to play their respected sports in college and were scheduled to sign their scholarship papers on Monday. One is also a finalist for the Greater Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky Women Sports Association High School Sportswoman of the Year.
At this time, four of the girls have been released from the hospital. One was moved from ICU to a regular floor and one has been in surgery for multiple broken bones and seems to be headed for a long recovery. Please pray that they continue healing both physically and emotionally.
The last girl perhaps needs our prayers the most. She is very close to Lisa and me and is in the most danger of the survivors. She is listed in serious condition as she is in a medically induced coma. God has dealt her a frightening hand, but this girl is a fighter and we hope she can make it through this. If any of these girls can survive, it is this girl. In her last three years of high school, she has suffered through two ACL tears and a kneecap problem. Yet through all her high school injuries, she hasn’t complained once nor ever expressed sentiments like “Why me”. She knew there were other people in the world worse off than having knee problems. Now she is one of those people that are worse off.
I could go on and on about these girls, but to sum it all up, they need all the prayers they can get. Please, please, please ask everyone in the family to pray for these girls!!!
Thanks,
Patrick
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