BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

During the sonogram, Jennifer reflected back on the long journey that had brought her to this place. At the tender age of 10, she’d started watching the "Believer’s Voice of Victory" broadcast. By 12, she was a Partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries. From the age of 14, her dream had been to work at KCM. Jennifer was 23 when she flew from her home in Wisconsin to Fort Worth to interview for a job at KCM. Once she had been hired, she packed her belongings and left her family, friends and the only life she’d ever known and moved to Texas. Now, at age 35, she worked as a producer in the television department and was married to KCM’s head chef, David Adams. Early in her pregnancy, Jennifer was sitting at her desk in the studio one day when Kenneth Copeland walked in and she shared with him that she was expecting a child. His face lit with joy, Jennifer recalls, and then his voice dropped low and serious. His piercing blue eyes seemed to look into her soul as he spoke: “Perfect pregnancy. Perfect delivery. Perfect baby.” “That sounds wonderful!” Jennifer said as Brother Copeland left the building. Looking at the sonogram, her obstetrician’s brows furrowed into a frown and Jennifer felt a hum of alarm. “Well, you were right. It’s a boy,” the doctor said. “But there’s something wrong. The baby isn’t growing properly. He’s two weeks behind. In addition, you’ve got placenta previa, which means the placenta has attached low over your cervix. If you go into labor with the placenta located where it is now, both you and your baby could bleed to death. Unless the placenta moves, we’ll schedule you for a cesarean section. Meanwhile, I’m transferring you to the care of a specialist.” Jennifer knew all about placenta previa. Her sister had had it and she’d been on hospital bedrest for several weeks. But the thing that had caused the hum of alarm to grow into something that resounded in her head like a fire alarm wasn’t about the placenta, says Jennifer. It was that the baby wasn’t growing properly. Suddenly, all those years of watching the TV broadcast, and all the months of reading the "Believer’s Voice of Victory" magazine from cover to cover kicked in. Jennifer knew that life and death were in the power of the tongue—her tongue and David’s! She met David’s gaze. There was no need for discussion. They both knew that God had already prepared them for this moment. He’d even given them the words to speak. They were on the same page. At the exact same time they each spoke the same words in unison. “Our baby is perfect.” High Risk “My pregnancy was labeled high risk from the first time I saw my doctor,” Jennifer says. “I was over the age of 35, which put me in the high-risk category. In addition, I was an insulin-dependent diabetic, which also created risks. In spite of that, my blood sugar stayed stable and I felt great. Although I didn’t suffer morning sickness, I was very fatigued. When I got home from work each day I fell asleep and slept all evening and through the night. “At 22 weeks we saw the specialist, who did another sonogram. Instead of being better, the news was worse. She said the baby was showing signs of Down syndrome. If that weren’t bad enough, it appeared that something was wrong with the blood flow from me to the placenta and to the baby. “We kept all that news to ourselves. The only people who knew what we were dealing with were Pastors George and Terri Pearsons, my sister, and two friends. When people asked how things were going we said, ‘All is well! Our baby is perfect!’ “One of our friends told Brother Copeland. The next time he was in the studio, he prayed over me and the baby. He prayed specifically over any problems with the blood flow. The next sonogram showed that the blood flow was perfect, but the baby was still behind in growth.” Jennifer and David were seeing the specialist every two to three weeks, and the negative reports were wearing them down. Now, sonogram reports indicated that the baby might have been suffering from other abnormalities in addition to Down syndrome. ****continues on page 24**** 23 : BVOV

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