SPRINGFIELD, MO.- On Saturday, Ozarksfirst spoke with the Roy family who emphasized their faith and said their son Cooper had truly embraced that life. On Sunday, that community of faith gathered to uplift Cooper and his family.
A sea of people gathered outside 20-year-old Cooper Roy’s window at Mercy Hospital Sunday afternoon to pray with one another just before Cooper returned to the operating room for another set of surgeries.
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Roy was hospitalized in critical condition, after he was hit head-on by a driver going the wrong way on Highway 65 on Tuesday night.
“This community has rallied around the story of this young man. It’s a story that has touched individual lives,” Dr. Wesley Vance said. “You had people that weren’t even faith people that gathered here to say, I’ve been touched by Cooper Roy and his testimony about Jesus.”
Cooper was an intern at Crossway Baptist Church with Vance, who led the group in prayer Sunday afternoon.