Please pray, think good thoughts, whatever you do, please do it..

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With a very, very heavy and sad heart, I must update this thread. I went to church this morning and everyone was really upset.. I was told that they declared him brain dead and had taken him off life support earlier in the morning. The youth group was a mess, as was I and many other people. My friend and I left church early and rushed to the hospital, only to find out they THOUGHT he was brain dead, but there was some miscommunication and he was not yet off life support. They took him to do whatever test that is done to see if someone is brain dead. After a few hours, they came and told his mom they needed to talk to her. The youth pastor of my church came in the waiting room a while later, and unfortunately told us that he was OFFICIALLY considered brain dead, according to the test results, and that he had passed away. It was quite a shock, because while we knew he wasn't out of the woods, we truly believed he would pull through this. Please pray for and foremost for his family, and secondly for the youth group. Many of them are extremely shaken by this, and understandably so. I chaperone trips, stay with them for their Wednesday night services, and whatnot, so that youth group are some of "my kids" and I cannot believe this has happened. I was too shaken to drive myself home, but I'm more calm now and just went back to the hospital to pick my car up. Thank you to everyone who prayed and wished the best, but God has a bigger purpose for this situation. He needed him more than we did, and as hard as it is for us to accept, we must.