CMA HeartBeat July 2025 | Page 20

TESTIMONIES
By CECIL Walker
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July HeartBeat
CMA Arizona’ s new Area Rep, Cecil Walker, shares how God used a simple bike blessing to truly impact a family in a time of need. Faithfully serving at bike nights, blessing bikes, and taking the Gospel to bikers we meet really does matter. God continues to work in and through this ministry He has called us to.
Mark Heid
Mark and Tammy Heid oversee the Rocky Mountain Region as National Evangelist.
WHAT WE DO MATTERS! was coming home a little early

I from a Christian Men’ s Camp in northeastern Arizona.

This decision became a divine appointment that I would never have guessed. Just past the last steep grade, I received a phone call from a young man named Bryce. We had just blessed his bike at the last Cycle Gear Bike
Night event. He told me on the phone that he was sorry to call but wasn’ t sure who else to reach out to and that he had a huge ask. I had no idea what to expect next.
He told me his brother Kyle, visiting from Detroit, Michigan, borrowed his bike and was in a terrible accident due to a car turning in front of him. Bryce said he wasn’ t sure if his 25-year-old brother would make it or not and asked if there was any way that I and any other CMA’ ers could come to the hospital and pray with the family over Kyle. I told him,β€œ Absolutely!” I just needed to drop off my car and trailer, and jump on my bike, and head to the hospital. He was so thankful to hear that CMA, whom he had just met, was willing to respond so quickly.
I arrived at the hospital and met Mom and Dad( fresh in from Michigan), as well as the rest of the family. They told me that Kyle had suffered a serious injury to the Interior Vena Cava, which
brings blood from the lower extremities back to the heart, and the doctor who saw him earlier in the morning said his condition could go either way. I asked if I could pray over Kyle. The whole family gathered around the bedside and joined in.
We prayed for a miracle and for just the right medical staff. Just then, a different doctor entered the room and gave them an update. The doctor explained that in these types of injuries, most commonly, the person will bleed out internally, and the leg( s) will swell to enormous sizes as there’ s nowhere for the blood to go. Instead, Kyle’ s tear coagulated, forming a clot that prevented it from bleeding out! Already answered prayers.
The doctor turned out to be the vascular surgeon who worked on Kyle the night before. He told them that Kyle had no other injuries. Another answered prayer! Next, he said he would be per-
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