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His 2-Year-Old Son Disappeared — Then a Dog's Bark Changed Everything
A little boy vanishes just before a family vacation. Eight hours later, Randy hears the words he had been praying for. Years later, an overheard prayer leads him to give a kidney to a stranger, against odds the transplant team called a miracle
A prayer overheard
A blizzard pulls Randy off the Appalachian Trail. At a retreat he overhears a woman praying for an O positive kidney donor for her husband Russell, a man he has never met. Different race, past transfusions, no reason to expect a match. Then the phone rings
What the doctors said next, they had never seen in 16 years of transplantsHear it from Randy at 26:44
One yes became a movement
Randy founded End the Wait to connect people who need kidneys with people willing to give one. Chapters in 11 states, a feature film with Dean Cain on the way, no cost and no strings attached at any step
Randy Simpkins
If I had 200 kidneys, I'd do it 199 more times starting tomorrow
Once a workaholic who led church music on autopilot, Randy saw his priorities change in a single day. Today he is Senior Pastor at Old Camp Church in Georgia and the founder of End the Wait
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32 more miracles like Randy's
Julie gathered the first-hand testimonies that moved her most into one book. Healing, near-death experiences and answered prayer, told by the people who lived them