Latest Update on this wonderful story --

The mother has her own testimony of heartbreaks in her own life, before she ever got married!

Mother's Bio:

Jamie Bakenhaster, was brought up in a Christian home where she learned about God and gave her heart to him at the tender age of eight. However, life was not always good for Jamie. When she was just a newborn they did not expect her to make it because she was a pre-mature baby. Her uncle Fred Bales came and anointed her and afterwards she started doing a lot better.

One winter, when she was a little older but still a child she went on a sleigh riding trip where an accident occured later resulting in a tumor being found in her head. This was not the end of her troubles.

At the age of thirteen she believed that everyone was good and believed that she would be safe going home with a friend of hers from school for the girl's birthday. The unthinkable happened to Jamie when she went to the party of the girl because when they were at a pizza shop, Jamie came out of the bathroom to find her friends gone. The only thing she thought to do was to trust the relative of her friend who said that he would take her to her friend's home. Instead of the man taking her home, he locked her in the vehicle and raped her. Afterwards he threw her in the ditch to fend for herself.

A few years later, Jamie began praying for a good Christian man to come into her life and then she met Bruce Bakenhaster. Bruce Bakenhaster was raised in a good home as well by Christian parents. He was very good to Jamie and she felt for the first time that someone was finally listening to her.

A year later, after they were married they began to pray for a Child. Soon enough, they had a child. They named her Brittany Bakenhaster. When she was born her mother saw that nothing was wrong. She grew to be a very active, fast learning child. She walked early and could talk up a storm. Everything continued to go good from this point on until Brittany turned three years old. At three years old at six o' clock in the morning Jamie heard the most awful sound she had ever heard in her life. It was the sound of her daughter twitching and having seizures with her eyes rolled back into her head. Jamie and Bruce rushed their daughter to the hospital to see what was wrong and when they did, the doctor told her that she was suffering with epilepsy. This was not shocking to Jamie because she had seizures herself and understood completely.

As time went on Brittany started having seizures every ten to thirty seconds which was determined by scans that were done on Brittany's brain. Their daughter was now taking three thousand and ten milligrams a day of medication. The doctors finally gave up telling jamie there was nothing they could do for her daughter. One day while Jamie was at home she opened her Bible up to the scripture that says, "Delight thyself also in the Lord and He shall give the the desires of thine heart. Committ thy ways unto the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass." This was the promise that the Lord had given Jamie. The promise that He would heal her daughter in His time...

(THEN THE BIO FOLLOWS WITH THE REST OF THE STORY FROM THE ACCOUNT FROM THE VIDEO)

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Bottom Line:

The Bakenhasters, Father, Mother, Daughter -- sang Gospel music together for a time.

This info is from their old website:

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