Please help my family.
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On the night of May 2Oth, 2015... we recieved news that would rock our family to the very core. My brother, Andrew Frantz, was in a hospital in Florida and the news was not good. He has MRSA and that infection has now reached his brain and the left side of his heart. My mother did not think twice about being by my brothers side. She packed a bag and drove from Ohio to Florida, with my older brother, James Frantz III and their father, James Frantz Jr. She took off of work until the first of June, with no pay and no vacation time, which means there is absolutely no money coming in. Bills are piling up and right now and she just needs to focus on being there for my brother. Andrew is nowhere near out of the woods and doctors are saying it will be nothing short of a miracle if Andrew makes it out of this. But our God is bigger than any of this! Only He knows Andrews plan.
The goal I have set for this campaign is to weaken the financial burden on my mothers shoulders and to offset the cost of future expenses, for Andrew and for her.
My mother would give you the shirt off of her back and the food off of her plate. Can we please show her how much we care?
If all you do is share this and say a prayer while doing so, you have helped our family in more ways than I will ever be able to explain.
May God be with each and every one of you.
Thank you in advance for praying, sharing, reading, and any donations you might put forth.
UPDATE - May 27th, 2O15;
Mark 4:38-39
Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?" And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Hush, be still." And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.
Pray for comfort for my family, for a calm in this storm. We do not know why this is happening, why we are losing Andrew. But we know that God still has a plan for him, whether that be an earthly one or a heavenly one... We trust it.
They had a new cardiologist come in who has never worked with Andrew to give an unbiased opinion about a heart valve transplant and if he felt my brother was a candidate. He isnt. They took him off the antibiotics because his kidneys are shutting down. The drs are giving him two weeks. But only God truly knows when.
He is being transferred to hospice care and the drs are going to make him as comfortable as they can until he takes his last breath. There is nothing else they can do.
Please, I am begging you. This isnt about gas money to and from the hospital anymore. Or money to run more tests. Please help me raise money so my mother can say goodbye to him the right way. No parent should ever have to worry about not having the money to lay her son to rest. Please help us.
And please keep praying for my family in these difficult days, weeks and months to come.
I love you all.
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UPDATE - May 29th, 2O15;
this is the hardest thing i have ever had to write...
JOHN 14:1-2
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In my Fathers house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
On May 29th, 2O15 at 1O:23 am, Andrew Charles Frantz took his last breath and went home to be with the Lord.
He was surrounded with love and prayer as mom and Mary Beth held his hand. He went peacefully, not feeling any pain.
Andrew was a good man with a huge heart that loved so strongly, there was no measure to it. Now, he is in Heaven, fulfilling the heavenly purpose that God has for him. Now, he will know no pain, no suffering and no turmoil.
He adopted many of you into this family and even though he is gone now, he will live on through all of our memories. Someday, it wont hurt to say his name. Someday, he will come up in conversation and you will be able to smile and hold onto the fact that you had the honor to know such an amazing man.
For the sake of Andrew and the love he shared, do not hold grudges against any people who have wronged you. Instead, pray for them. Forgive them.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is never promised but today is a gift - thats why they call it THE PRESENT. do something with YOUR present.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:17-18
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Please, help my family put him to rest.
The goal I have set for this campaign is to weaken the financial burden on my mothers shoulders and to offset the cost of future expenses, for Andrew and for her.
My mother would give you the shirt off of her back and the food off of her plate. Can we please show her how much we care?
If all you do is share this and say a prayer while doing so, you have helped our family in more ways than I will ever be able to explain.
May God be with each and every one of you.
Thank you in advance for praying, sharing, reading, and any donations you might put forth.
UPDATE - May 27th, 2O15;
Mark 4:38-39
Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?" And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Hush, be still." And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.
Pray for comfort for my family, for a calm in this storm. We do not know why this is happening, why we are losing Andrew. But we know that God still has a plan for him, whether that be an earthly one or a heavenly one... We trust it.
They had a new cardiologist come in who has never worked with Andrew to give an unbiased opinion about a heart valve transplant and if he felt my brother was a candidate. He isnt. They took him off the antibiotics because his kidneys are shutting down. The drs are giving him two weeks. But only God truly knows when.
He is being transferred to hospice care and the drs are going to make him as comfortable as they can until he takes his last breath. There is nothing else they can do.
Please, I am begging you. This isnt about gas money to and from the hospital anymore. Or money to run more tests. Please help me raise money so my mother can say goodbye to him the right way. No parent should ever have to worry about not having the money to lay her son to rest. Please help us.
And please keep praying for my family in these difficult days, weeks and months to come.
I love you all.
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UPDATE - May 29th, 2O15;
this is the hardest thing i have ever had to write...
JOHN 14:1-2
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In my Fathers house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
On May 29th, 2O15 at 1O:23 am, Andrew Charles Frantz took his last breath and went home to be with the Lord.
He was surrounded with love and prayer as mom and Mary Beth held his hand. He went peacefully, not feeling any pain.
Andrew was a good man with a huge heart that loved so strongly, there was no measure to it. Now, he is in Heaven, fulfilling the heavenly purpose that God has for him. Now, he will know no pain, no suffering and no turmoil.
He adopted many of you into this family and even though he is gone now, he will live on through all of our memories. Someday, it wont hurt to say his name. Someday, he will come up in conversation and you will be able to smile and hold onto the fact that you had the honor to know such an amazing man.
For the sake of Andrew and the love he shared, do not hold grudges against any people who have wronged you. Instead, pray for them. Forgive them.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is never promised but today is a gift - thats why they call it THE PRESENT. do something with YOUR present.
2 CORINTHIANS 4:17-18
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Please, help my family put him to rest.
Organizer and beneficiary
Kelsi Little
Organizer
Spartanburg, SC
Susan Little
Beneficiary