COURTESY JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES
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“It’s frozen, my thing is frozen,”
Vo answers through gritted teeth.
“It’s literally frozen.”
In Rapid City, S.D., Janice
Heigh, 53, logs on to the chat
room to seek help. She and her
husband have been overwhelmed
by the work of caring for their
three grandchildren. She feels
distance and isolation seeping
into her marriage.
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06.09.13
She also feels removed from a
community of people grappling
with similar troubles. Though she
attends weekly services and teaches
Sunday school at a local Rapid City
church, Heigh has struggled to find
a Bible studies group for people in
her predicament. There are meetings for parents with young children — populated by people decades her junior — and meetings for
people in her age group, who generally have other worries. She has
had trouble arranging her schedule
around that of her local church.
But on the Web, church services
Osteen and
his wife,
Victoria, take
the stage at
Marlins Park
in April 2013.