(RNS) — Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts, co-leader of the Dallas megachurch founded by her father, Bishop T.D. Jakes, is recovering after suffering a neck fracture that she said almost paralyzed her in mid-April.
Jakes Roberts, 37, a popular conference speaker, author and co-senior pastor with her husband at The Potter’s House church, posted on social media that she was injured during an accident while playing with her daughter on a trampoline and was hospitalized.
“Last night was scary. I was almost paralyzed, but God didn’t see fit to let that be my story,” Jakes Roberts said in identical posts on Facebook and Instagram on April 19. “I was playing a game with my Ella on the trampoline and landed on my neck. Instantly, I heard several pops in my neck.”…