{"id":6171,"date":"2023-03-30T09:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2023-04-03T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T14:44:16","slug":"pastor-who-was-pronounced-dead-restored-by-mothers-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2023\/03\/pastor-who-was-pronounced-dead-restored-by-mothers-prayers.html","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Who Was Pronounced Dead Restored By Mother&#8217;s Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6204\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6204\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2023\/03\/pastor-travis-greene_credit-jamie-lamor-thompson-shutterstock-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Lamor Thompson\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Numerous people worldwide have experienced the power of prayer, including musician and pastor Travis Greene. Greene, a Columbia, South Carolina native, has felt that power in a life-changing way. He shared that he fell from a four-story window when he was four years old and was soon after pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Greene visited \u201cFox &amp; Friends Weekend\u201d for the \u201cFaith &amp; Friends\u201d concert series to discuss what happened, recalling how the power of prayer brought him back to life. He said, \u201cI was pronounced dead, and my mother prayed for me and restored my life.\u201d The five-time Grammy Award nominee, who was living in Germany with his mother when he fell, said his survival was a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Greene gives God all the glory for his recovery. Greene is also a pastor at Forward City Church in Columbia, in addition to being a musician. Greene says he and his band perform for hundreds of people at church every weekend. He noted that the band is releasing a new album, \u201cExpect Impossible,\u201d on April 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cp2w4GlrEe6\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cp2w4GlrEe6\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Travis Greene (@travisgreenetv)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Greene says the band hopes to spread the gospel\u2019s messages through their music. \u201cWe use that to be able to give people a greater truth that can help inspire them in their life,\u201d the musician said.\u00a0Greene said that Forward City is a nontraditional church that welcomes visitors who are very familiar with Christ and perhaps tired of hearing the gospel in traditional ways.\u00a0It also includes others who are just beginning to learn about the faith.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe\u2019re traveling the world, letting people know that\u00a0Jesus is real\u00a0and he loves us.\u201d\u00a0The musicians sang the song \u201cTent Revival\u201d from their upcoming album for the fans at the \u201cFaith &amp; Friends Weekend\u201d concert series performance.<\/p>\n<p>Greene began his music career in 2007 with the release of\u00a0<em>The More<\/em>\u00a0via Greenelight Records. He has since released two\u00a0studio albums,\u00a0<em>Stretching Out<\/em>\u00a0in 2010,\u00a0<em>The Hill\u00a0<\/em>in 2015, and an\u00a0extended play,\u00a0<em>Intentional<\/em>\u00a0in 2015. Travis Greene\u2019s third album\u00a0<em>Crossover: Live From Music City,<\/em>\u00a0was released in 2017 as a live album. Greene\u2019s music has charted on the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Top Gospel Albums\u00a0and the Top Gospel Songs charts, and he has been nominated for multiple awards, including five\u00a0Grammy Awards\u00a0and 13\u00a0Stellar Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous people worldwide have experienced the power of prayer, including musician and pastor Travis Greene. Greene, a Columbia, South Carolina native, has felt that power in a life-changing way. He shared that he fell from a four-story window when he was four years old and was soon after pronounced dead. Greene visited \u201cFox &amp; Friends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":6204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1250,1590],"class_list":["post-6171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-saved-from-accident","tag-travis-greene"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pastor Who Was Pronounced Dead Restored By Mother&#039;s Prayers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Travis Greene, a pastor and musician, shared how his mother&#039;s prayers restored his life after he fell from a window and was pronounced dead.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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