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Caleb Jeremiah Weiss was 30% larger than his gestational age when he was born. He weighed 2 pounds, 14 ounces. He was also born dead. No one except Joe and Jessica had expected him to be alive. Hospital staff moved Caleb’s lifeless body out of the way while they worked on Jessica. Then, something happened. God started Caleb’s heart and the baby showed signs of life! Despite the odds, Joe and Jessica’s son was alive! Just then, a nurse pointed to the security camera. “Do you have family here?” she asked. Looking up at the camera, Joe and Jessica saw that their Life Group members had gathered in the hallway. “One of my prayers had been that the head doctor of the NICU would be there when Caleb was born,” Jessica recalls. “He had told us, ‘I know you’re in a negative situation, but if you get your baby into my hands, I’ll be aggressive.’ He wasn’t there when I went into labor, but while I was in recovery, he showed up and said, ‘Sign this. I just gave your baby a blood transfusion without your approval.’” Caleb was the sickest baby in the NICU. While most nurses cared for four babies. Caleb’s condition was so critical that he had one nurse assigned only to him. He was medically paralyzed for two days so he wouldn’t fight the machines that were keeping him alive. Against All Odds “When I was discharged, we knew we couldn’t always control what was said over him,” Jessica remembers. “So, we posted the Word of God over him on his whiteboard: ‘The child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him’ (Luke 2:40, "New International Version"). “Every day, I met with the doctor and asked, ‘What are your concerns today?’ One day, he said he was concerned about his heart, another day it was his brain, another day his kidneys. Everyone in our Life Group prayed for each concern as it arose and without fail, the following day that was resolved. On day six, the doctor reported, ‘I have no more concerns. Today we’re removing his breathing tube. Now, he just needs to grow, then he can go home.’” Ten days before his actual due date, Joe and Jessica brought little Caleb home—a healthy, normal 7-pound baby. “Once we got him home, Caleb continued to grow strong,” said Jessica. “Not only was he physically strong, but testing showed that his cognitive ability was superior. Everything the doctors said would happen to him, never happened. They were all amazed. One of them even offered to be in a documentary our church made.” Since Caleb’s birth, Jessica and Joe have had two more children: Levi, now 7; and Zoe, age 4. Today, at age 10, Caleb is a downhill ski racer. “I taught him to ski the bunny slopes,” Joe explains. “When we signed him up for skiing lessons, the coach said, ‘I’ve been a coach for 10 years, and today has been my best day. What Caleb is doing, he shouldn’t be able to do at his age.’ We enrolled Caleb in a ski club when he was 6. Then Joslyn and Levi joined. At 10 and 7, Caleb and Levi are both ski racers. They love speed. Caleb won the Abby Award, which is given to one child out of 180.” After seeing God move in such a powerful way for them, Joe and Jessica determined to learn more about faith by attending KCM meetings and sitting under the teaching of Brother Copeland. Not long after, Joe resigned his position with Hyatt to start his own business. Meanwhile, he couldn’t ignore the tug he was feeling to become involved in ministry and help spread the gospel. In the spring of this year, Joe’s pastor told him about a director’s position that had come open at KCM’s office in Canada. After a series of interviews, Joe was flown to Fort Worth to meet with Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. Soon after that, he was given the position. “I enjoy being a Partner with KCM,” Joe says. “I know we are prayed for daily, and I love being linked to their anointing. Now, as director of KCM Canada, my dream is to make a positive impact on people’s lives the way it was made on ours. I want other people to experience their miracles.” V BVOV : 27

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