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He decided against the risk, at the shock of his doctor.
“He remembered kind of pressuring me like, ‘Who
turns down a kidney?’” Abbott said. “Well, I did.”
Abbott continued to function reasonably well until
January of 2021, when he was infected with COVID-19
and almost lost his life after spending nearly a week in
the ICU.
“I didn’t die,” he said. “Through the grace of God, it
wasn’t my time but I was really, really close according to
(Sandra), because I don’t remember those five or six
days. I was in never-never land. I did survive, but it
tracked my kidneys down to 5 percent. I immediately
went on dialysis, which I’ve been on ever since, three
days a week.”
It wasn’t his time, but the clock was running. Abbott
was in desperate need of a donor. He and his wife
decided to send in a prayer request to their church,
Summit Baptist in Acworth.
The question
When Jack and Sandra Abbott sat down to speak to their
long-time friend and minister, Jimmy Slick, they planned
to discuss ways to gain more church members after
suffering attendance declines from the pandemic.
Slick, who said he is not one to ask private
information of someone, said he felt compelled to ask
Jack Abbott about his kidney condition. The Abbotts had
previously sent in prayer requests through Slick’s
Sunday School class that a kidney would become
available from a deceased donor.
“Now my assessment was, this was the Holy Spirit
speaking to me because I wouldn’t normally ask this
Slick, who accepted Christ at the age of 6, is one of the founding pastors at Summit
Baptist.
Sandra and Jack Abbott have been married for 15 years.
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