For any parent, the ultimate test of faith involves the welfare of a child. With Katie Newport's mother and father, the focus was on how best to support the conviction of their badly injured 17-year-old daughter that she needed neither an operation nor a hospital stay.
It had always been Katie's choice to heal herself by spiritual means. Then came a moment when she was faced with an unprecedented decision. Her emphatic response at the scene of a motorcycle accident set the tone for what would follow.
A resident of Massachusetts tells how prayer and a deep commitment to family help her sustain a long-distance caregiving relationship with her grandmother in Florida.
