Deaconess Jisu Oh, age 26, Parish 2, Manmin Central Church

Around 2:45 P.M., on January 2, I received a phone call. I heard that my youngest son Yechan (age 3), was in the emergency room at hospital. I was told that he had looked feeble at the daycare center in the morning. He didn't eat and just slept. In the afternoon, he woke up and suddenly threw up. And while he was being taken to the hospital, he stopped breathing.


After the space-and-time-transcending prayer, he recovered independent breathing.

On the way to the hospital by taxi, I prayed and asked God to save him. When I arrived, he recovered his breathing, but it was not independent. He was 100% relying on the respirator. My family sent a prayer request to Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee who was praying in his mountain prayer house. Around 7 P.M., I heard that Senior Pastor had just prayed for my son. Then, Yechan spontaneously began breathing independently.

The doctor said that chances were very high that he was in a vegetative state because more than twenty minutes had passed from his cardiac arrest and cessation of breathing until arrival at the hospital. He added that even if he woke up he would not be able to live a normal life.


Though the cardiac arrest went untreated for 20 minutes, his brainwave test showed no damage in his brain.

For a patient whose heart stops in cardiac arrest, life or death can be determined by CPR administered in the 4 minutes directly after onset. This is the so-called 'golden time.' If not treated in the time, it usually leads to death, and even if the patient survives, it leads to brain damage. Yechan was treated after more than 20 minutes. However, he received Senior Pastor's prayer. His brainwave test showed no problem at all, and the doctors said he was really lucky. He recovered quickly day by day. I felt so grateful to God.



He underwent many examinations and was diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction caused by Kawasaki disease complications. Kawasaki disease is a disease in which blood vessels throughout the body become inflamed. The most common symptoms include a fever that lasts for more than five days, and it leads to inflammation in heart blood vessels. It could also form blood clot, which blocks the heart blood vessel and leads to sudden death. His doctor said, "Some parts of his heart coronary arteries are blocked, and some parts are swollen like balloons. If the vessels burst, he will die."


His life was not guaranteed due to acute myocardial infarction, but he recovered quickly.

He was too young to have a surgery, so the only possible treatment was medication. From the night of January 3 until the morning of the 4th, he was treated with medication that dissolved the blood clot that had been hardened in his coronary arteries. He stood a chance of death caused by gastric or brain hemorrhage as side effects, but God protected him.

The doctor told us to prepare his last moment that might happen to him the next day. He meant Yechan might die any time. However, he recovered health day by day. On January 6, which was the fourth day after his hospitalization, he didn't need the respirator and started to drink water.

On Sunday, January 7, he sat up. Senior Pastor prayed again after Sunday Evening Service, and he began to call us, "Mom! Dad! Grandma!" He even had fun with us. His breath had returned to 100% independent breathing. No problem was detected in his echocardiogram and liver somatic index exam. He moved to the general ward from ICU within a week. He became bright and happy again just as he had been before.



This incident brought great changes to my husband and me. We could no longer be lukewarm in our believing lives and began to attend Daniel Prayer Meeting. My husband, Brother Taesung Oh, stopped drinking alcohol, smoking, and playing games. He now keeps the Lord's Day completely and attends every meeting to share the grace we received from God. We give all thanks and glory to the living God, and we extend our thanks to Senior Pastor who prayed with love.