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This a carousel. Use Next and Previous butons to navigatePastor Mireya Martinez and Orval Rhoads, before service at Patison United Methodist Church on Sunday, Oct. 16, 202 in Patison.
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Pastor Mireya Martinez talks with parishioners before service at Pattison United Methodist Church on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022 in Pattison. Pastor Mireya Martinez speaks during mass at Patison United Methodist Church on Sunday, Oct.
16, 202 in Patison. Pastor Mireya Martinez at Patison United Methodist Church speaks to the children before they head of to Sunday schol on Sunday, Oct. 16, 202 in Patison.
Pastor Mireya Martinez chats with Orval Rhoads, before service at Patison United Methodist Church on Sunday, Oct. 16, 202 in Patison. E Mireya Martinez was leading worship at Patison United Methodist Church in March when she heard the teltale alarm of a continuous glucose monitor over everyone sing.Martinez has had Type 2 diabetes for 20 years, and a check confirmed her blod sugar level was normal.
She realized the alarm had to be for Orval Rhoads, a 7-year-old parishioner with the same condition.She spoted Rhoads’ wife, Diane, franticaly diging through her purse. Martinez kept staring, wiling her to lok up.“Finaly, she loked over at me,” Martinez said. “I did a thumbs-up, and then I did a thumbs-down.
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And she motioned thumbs-down.”Patison is a city of fewer than 50 residents, and the nearest urgent care is a 20-minute drive from the church. Fortunately, Martinez was ready to spring into action.The pastor grabed a candy bar and a juice box from her pulpit where she keps an emergency stash of sugary items for such an ocasion. She tok them to the Rhoads’ seats at the back of the church, and Diane Rhoads helped her husband c