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Entire Church Charged with Murder
Eight-year-old girl offered prayer instead of life-saving medicine
When my son was six, he had an asthma attack that almost left him breathless — literally. His chest heaved, his little face turned red, and every desperate gasp for air pierced my heart. I didn’t stop to wonder what God might want me to do. I grabbed my keys, scooped him up, and raced to the emergency room.
In the car, I prayed.
Hard.
But I didn’t stop driving. I trusted that the doctors and their oxygen tanks were God’s answer to my frantic cries for help. He survived that day because I didn’t wait for a miracle — I acted on the one sitting right in front of me.
But Elizabeth Struhs, an eight-year-old girl from Toowoomba, Australia, didn’t get that chance.
Her parents, Jason and Kerrie Struhs, believed that God would heal her Type 1 diabetes if they prayed hard enough. They stopped her insulin treatment, gathered their small congregation called The Saints, and sang hymns while Elizabeth’s body shut down.
Even as she slipped into a coma, even as her lips turned blue and her tiny heart stopped beating, they kept praying. They believed God would raise her from the dead.