Miracle In Madison -- 13 Year-Old Girls Prayer During Harrowing Experience Nabs Dangerous Criminal

Kirk Noonan / Teresa Neumann Reporting : Apr 18, 2005
Assemblies of God News Service

The surveillance tape shows James D. Perry striding confidently into a Madison, Wisconsin, hotel. He must have been pleased when he saw that the lobby and an adjoining conference room were brimming with guests...then his eyes fell on Cassie Chivers, a petite, blonde 13-year-old girl who had just stepped into an empty elevator.

"The hotel was filled with our people, so we felt safe," says Debbie Chivers, Cassie's mother. "No one thinks that when you're completely surrounded by people you know and trust, something bad is going to happen."

According to the story in Assemblies of God News, Charlie and Debbie Chivers, Assemblies of God missionaries and founders of Special Touch Ministry an organization that helps people with disabilities had gathered at the hotel for an STM winter retreat. Cassie, the Chivers' second-oldest daughter, had been asked to retrieve something from a room on the second floor. Responsible, well-spoken and mature beyond her years, no one gave a second thought to her going to a room alone. After all, the hotel was full of family and friends.

Just as the elevator's doors were closing, Perry slid into it. But little did Perry know what God had done to prepare the girl for this very moment. Not only had this little girl been praying for months that God would use her in a miracle, but her father -- just 24 hours earlier -- had coached his family on what to do in a kidnapping situation. That knowledge and the promise of God in response to her panicked prayer would save Cassie's life and the lives of an untold number of other victims.

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