By Mark Ellis
Betty Malz
Doctors inexplicably missed a burst appendix, which led to her untimely death in a hospital bed at age 27. But she shocked her doctors and nurses when she abruptly sat up and began to tell stories about a visit to heaven.
“I had never been sick in my life,” Betty Malz recalled, at a conference hosted by Hospital Christian Fellowship in the Midwest. She was only 24 hours into a Florida vacation with her family when she noticed a pain in her side.
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By Mark Ellis
Akiane with Jesus paintings
Her atheist parents were surprised when their three-year-old began to describe dreams and visions from God. This inexplicable direction in their daughter’s life, combined with a remarkable talent in art and poetry, inspired her family to re-examine their own lives.
“My life began in an unusual way,” says Akiane Kramarik, 17, who spent her early years in rural Illinois. By unusual, she refers to her underwater birth in “a shack” on the edge of a cornfield. “Our family had no money, no friends, no relatives, no television or radio. Our life was quite simple — long walks in nature, open conversations, and hands on explorations of knowledge,” she says.
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By Mark Ellis
Three minutes in the ‘waiting room’ of heaven
Teenager Ben Breedlove
He “cheated” death three times in his short life, but a rare heart condition finally sent him heaven bound on Christmas night at only 18-years-old. A video Ben recorded one week before his passing has gone viral and is bringing hope to many about eternity.
“I accepted Christ at age four and Ben also accepted Christ at age four,” says Ally Breedlove, Ben’s older sister. “Ben was never the type to evangelize or speak openly about his faith, but we always knew Ben believed in God and heaven and accepted Christ.”
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Author adds new details about heaven
Colton at four-years-old
By Mark Ellis
When doctors inexplicably missed four-year-old Colton Burpo’s burst appendix, and the resulting infection nearly took his life, his father railed at God as Colton’s life seemed to slip away.
Pastor Todd Burpo found a small room in the hospital after Colton was taken into surgery, and he unloaded some raw emotions toward heaven. “Where are you God? Is this how you treat your pastors? Is it worth it to even serve you?” he shouted, as recounted in the New York Times bestseller “Heaven is for Real.”
After Colton’s surgery and a time in ICU, the fair-haired boy made a remarkable recovery. It wasn’t until four months later on a family car ride to South Dakota that Colton’s parents realized something very unusual happened to Colton as doctors fought to save his life.
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