The Reason We Are Shriners

Last night while I was at the Shrine helping to set up for a non-Shrine event and working through the exciting mail the Potentate gets every day (mainly bill's), I received a call from someone who was just calling with some good news. It seems as though many years back there was a family in the Sidney area who had a young child who was born with a hole in their back and very serious medical complications. The doctors told the family the newborn could be saved but the best they could do was to do an emergency medical procedure but the newborn would probably never be able to learn or function normally. Someone who was at the hospital that day said let us contact Shriners and see what they could do which they did and the results were unbelievable. The young child is now fully grown and able to function normally. She has now said they only thing she wants to do is to meet those who not only saved her life but also made it possible for her to have a normal life. I'm working right now to make her request come true by inviting her to meet the Shriners at the April stated meeting. Stories like this are why I belong to Antioch Shrine and decided to accept the challenge to be Potentate this year.