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Derek Carr, the quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, recently shared his testimony at a Las Vegas Church, and how God is meeting their family during hard seasons of life.
This past Sunday, Carr was asked to give the message at ChurchLV in Las Vegas, Nevada.
To begin, Carr addressed rumours saying he did indeed have a shoulder injury and that he and the team are working through it.
Then he shared what happened to his wife and their four kids while recently on vacation. To start, everyone got quite sick.
"We're outside and we're playing, and my wife goes over to light our new little fire thing so the kids can sit around it, and it explodes," Carr said during the service. "Right in her face, propane fire, boom. She's on fire.
"It's crazy, second-degree burns on her arm, her whole arm, her face, her neck, all this stuff. Praise God, she's doing great. If you look at her arm, if I never told you that story, you wouldn't even be able to know. It's unbelievable what God has done."
More Pain
Only a few short days after coming back from vacation, Carr's wife was rushed to the emergency room.
"We get there, and after all the tests and after hours, we're in there for a while, and they finally come back and they say, 'We have great news.' Because you know every word that comes to mind is coming to mind; what is really going on? This was a scary situation to see your wife like that. They come in: 'Great news. You are completely fine.' We're like, 'What? But what is happening?'''
That wasn't where the news from the doctors ended, however.
"We're thankful, we're celebrating. All we've prayed is that she would be OK. But what we didn't know, which came to a complete shock and surprise to us is that we had a miscarriage," Carr said. "We didn't know we had a baby, and now we're hit with this and this emotional toll of, wait, we had a child?"
Carr then shared the hope he and his wife have because of their Christian faith.
"I don't just have four babies, we have five. One is in heaven. We have three little boys and a little girl, and we'll get to meet the other one when we get to heaven someday."
To end the sermon, Carr talked about his greatest victory when three of his sons got baptized.
"It doesn't really matter what we're going through right now," Carr said. "That is the biggest win you could ever give me. If our children will follow Jesus and openly declare that they want to follow God for the rest of their life, you can count us winners."