Claim: Prayers are requested for Ella Newmiller, a 5-year-old North Carolina girl with an inoperable brain stem tumor.
Status: Outdated.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, May 2008]
Please add this to your church's prayer chain. On Sunday, April 27th, Ella Newmiller and her family attended church at Edenton Street United Methodist, in Raleigh, as they do each week. Ella is in my son Scott's, Friday, May 2nd, was Ella's 5th birthday. Friends at Edenton Street pulled together an amazing celebration for 'Princess Ella'. She arrived in a horse drawn carriage and was greeted by over Ella's mother, Renae, commented, 'We don't need meals or errands. The only thing we really need is PRAYER.' Renae asked me to tell friends, 'even if they don't know Ella', to please pray. She asked that those friends ask I am attaching a photo of Ella from Friday's There are simple prompts to help you log on. |
Origins: As the prayer request reproduced above describes, in April 2008 the family of Ella Newmiller learned just before the little girl's fifth birthday that she has an inoperable brain stem tumor. As Bonnie Rochman of the Raleigh, North Carolina,
had been glassy-eyed and sleepy the last week of April. Teachers wondered if she had allergies. Her mother, Renae, speculated she may have taken a tumble and sustained a concussion. An MRI revealed a much scarier truth. Word went out via e-mail, and people around the world, in India, in France, in Germany and China, responded that they are praying for her. A rainbow of Ella's parents are struggling with what to tell their daughter about what's happening to her body. She knows she has something in her brain that needs to come out. She knows her parents are researching every possible way to get it out. What she doesn't know is there aren't a lot of options. Doctors at UNC-Chapel Hill offer two choices: Radiation or nothing at all. Both alternatives yield the same end result.
Ella
According to the care page for Ella established on carepages.com, she passed away on 8 February 2012.
Last updated: 9 February 2012