Ten-Year Old Martika Rankine has leukemia. There was not enough money for medical treatment. So, many church friends of the family and well-wishers felt that efforts should be directed to convincing Martika that “God was blessing her with an early trip to heaven.”
Her eleven-year old friend Jon Mikol Haylock has a different theology, based on Luke 8:54 and 13:16. He began to tell people that if enough of them cared for a sick child as Jesus did, they might help Martika to be loosed from Death’s bond.
Young Jon Mikol organized “Hands Across Cayman” to help his sick friend. The idea swept the nation, and so on July 28, Heritage Day, inspired and led by an eleven year old boy who cared, a human chain of people linked hands across the island of Grand Cayman, singing and praying for Martika, and collecting funds. Off-duty police officers volunteered for crowd and traffic control.
The next day, overwhelmed with emotion, the parents of Martika were presented with tens of thousands of dollars towards her medical expenses.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One