Jeremy Powell

Jeremy was born with an immune deficiency that rendered his body incapable of defeating bacterial and fungal infections. As an 18 month old baby, his young mother was told he would not live past the age of five.

However, because of God’s grace and some amazing medical care, Jeremy not only survived, but thrived.  He battled many infections throughout his life, but was able to overcome every one, attending and graduating both high school and then college with a bachelors degree in Biology.

While pursuing a degree in biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt University, God called Jeremy into the ministry. He left school, married his college sweetheart and moved to Fort Worth, Texas to enroll in seminary. Two kids, and four church assignments later, God was faithful in growing his faith and impact in the ministry.

And then in the spring of 2000, as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to sweep its way through the United States, Jeremy began experiencing pain in his back, and weakness in his legs. These symptoms would eventually be diagnosed as fungal meningitis, and his life would be threatened like never before. Given only an 18% chance to survive the infection, his doctors at the National Institutes of Health recommended a bone marrow transplant as a last effort to clear the meningitis and save his life. Knowing that he only had a 25% chance of surviving the transplant, and facing the reality of dying in a hospital bed 800 miles away from his daughters, Jeremy, and his wife, Jodi prayerfully submitted to God’s will.

And God did what only He could do.

Not only did Jeremy survive the transplant, but his rehabbed immune system fought back the infection in his spine and brain leaving him cured from his immunodeficiency and the fungal meningitis that it had caused– however, it left him completely paralyzed, barely able to move a thumb and dangerously close to having his breathing permanently compromised.

Yet God wasn’t done bringing Jeremy back to life. After a stint at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Spain Rehabilitation Hospital, another operation, and an inpatient rehab stay at Vanderbilt’s Stallworth Hospital, he slowly began feeling again. As he grew stronger, his upper body mobility continued to improve and God continues to amaze medical doctors, nurses and physical therapists all over the country with his recovery.

Now Jeremy is continuing to pastor a local church and leads followers of Christ with a fresh perspective and a renewed sense of purpose.

This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

Ezekiel 37:5-6