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  • Disaster Relief Appreciation Day set for Nov. 10
    by Tobin Perry, posted Wednesday, November 06, 2019 (4 years ago)

    Photo provided by Alabama Baptist Convention.
    FORT GIBSON, Okla. (BP) -- It has been nearly 18 years since the darkest day of Lonnie Rowan's life. On Dec. 31, 2001, Rowan fell into a brush fire on his Ft. Gibson, Okla., property. With burns over 35 percent of his body, doctors gave him a 1 percent chance to live.

    God's odds were much better.

    Although Rowan had one leg amputated below the knee and the other leg amputated above the knee, he beat all the other medical expectations. The doctors said he'd spend four months in ... Read More