Trinity members pray because:

The Bible tells us to pray

Jesus tells us to pray in the Bible

We know the power of personal prayer

We know the power of intercessory prayer

We have proof of the power of prayer

On this page you will find testimony about answered prayers of Trinity members and how Trinity members approach prayer in their lives.  We hope that you will find this witness instructive, inspiring and convincing to you as you grow in your prayer life.

Bonne Morris                 

A Poem

                            Others' Prayers

What else is there besides a prayer

That tells how much we truly care--

Words from God for us to hold

Each one tender like precious gold?

Reaching out to understand

Whether we're sick or feel despair

What comfort knowing others care?

Prayers from others bring such relief;

They strengthen us in times of grief.

When others pray, God does His best

To work His miracles and all the rest.

This lets us know God has heard

Each and every prayerful word.

Prayer reminds us that God's nearby

To take our tears and wipe our eyes.

If ever there's a way that God repairs,

It's through His using all our prayers.

What we say while we pray

Becomes God's mortar and his clay.

They're all He needs, it's just enough.

What God has does His great work

While He sorts through our prayerful words.

If someone's lonely, God is there

Revealed to them by others' prayers.

If we're ailing or perhaps infirmed,

Through prayer God's touch is confirmed.

There's no excuse not to pray

Despite the season or the day.

Pray for others so God might hear

Your love for them which He holds dear.

Though we may not know all the others

Whose constant prayers bind together

Realize their love is very special indeed

And that all their prayers are all you'll need.

                                              Amen

Georgia & Louis Buettner

The Buettner family knows of the power of intercessory prayer.  At four years of age, our third grandson (3rd grandchild) was discovered at the bottom of a pool over 5 minutes after being missed at a Little League end of season celebration party hosted by the parents of a teammate of Kennedy's older brother.  It took 15 minutes of CPR by his father, a physician, to revive his heartbeat, but he was unconcious and having seizures.  In the emergency room of Druid City Hospital, his mom was told that he was going to die.  When I saw his little body in the decerebrate posturing, it made me sick.  I knew that meant either brain damage at the best or the prequel to death.

But, although I got to the ER as soon as possible after I had taken the other grandchildren to their home, the minister of their church, all the elders and many of the congregation were in the waiting area already.  Prayer groups clustered here and there.  Amy was being counseled and comforted, and others were on the phones and cell phones calling the prayer warriors to action.  After this was all over, we heard from people all over the United States and Canada.  The prayer chain expanded logarithmically. 

An air ambulance was summoned from Children's Hospital in Birmingham, but the bad weather was closed in over Tuscaloosa and, although they sent the helicopter anyway, they made plans for a longer ambulance ride up the interstate highway.  Exactly 5 minutes before they departed, while the air ambulance was hovering overhead, the clouds parted just long enough for the doctor and the medics to bundle Kennedy onto the helicopter and take off.  Then the clouds closed in, and we drove in the blustering rain up the interstate 45 minutes to Children's Hospital.

Two positive omens occurred while Kennedy was kept in a drug-induced paralyzed and comatose state while they breathed for him with a machine and administered their magic potions in the Children's Hospital Pulmonary Critical Care Unit.  The doctor who received Kennedy was named Mark Buckmeister.  Mark is the name of Kennedy's deceased uncle whose nickname was "Buckmaster," because of his hunting prowess.  This was uplifting to a small degree, a sign that a saint in heaven was giving us a sign that they were paying attention.

Then, while Amy was searching her Bible for something to focus on while waiting out this horrible vigil, she just let the Bible open where it wanted to on her lap.  The first passage she saw was Psalms 18:16, "He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters."

Seven days after he was flown to Children's, Kennedy rode my shoulders (a coveted prize among my grandchildren) out of the hospital, having been pronounced entirely whole.  Although expected to be discovered in follow-up testing, no neurological damage has been detected.

He has represented his school in regional Math Olympics and makes all "A's."  His motor function is likewise unaffected.  His specialty is 2nd Baseman on his Little League team, and he has made phenomenal catches.

So, the Buettners say to the atheists and those who don't have an active prayer life, "Too bad you won't avail yourself of a powerful Helper in your life--One who wants to lift you up and do good things for you."