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P.T Minner's
"miracle journey" begins tonight, right after his dad delivers
a Good Friday sermon about the hope of resurrection.
In a motor home filled with food, toys and fervent optimism, he and his
father, the Rev. Prentice T.Minner, will travel to the East Coast, where
the pastor's son will continue his fight for survival.
P.T., who is 15 months old, suffers from Pompe disease, a rare and
deadly form of muscular dystrophy that has weakened his muscles and
caused his heart to expand to nearly fill his tiny chest cavity.
A doctor in New York
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hopes to give the boy treatments to maintain his
health until he can begin receiving an experimental treatment at Duke
University that offers perhaps his only chance of survival beyond his
toddler years.
The pastor, his son and two members of Cathedral of Promise,
Metropolitan Community Church will make the trip by RV because the boy's
condition makes flying extremely dangerous.
"It is an ideal time for us to go, on Good Friday," said
Minner, assistant pastor at the church at Mather Field in Rancho
Cordova.
Because I believe we will come back with the risen
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That is why I call it the miracle
journey."
Their journey is also the journey of a small congregation that has
suffered more than its share of tragedy in the past year. The Rev.
Ed Sheriff, the church's popular associate pastor, was stabbed to death
in October. Less than a month later, a former pastor and respected
member of the clergy, Jody Grace Safier, died in a fire. Then P.T.
"We are really being
challenged," said the congregation's senior pastor, the Rev.
Freda Smith.
"This
baby has been a member of our congregation since before he was
born,"
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