Baby Endurance Update: A Time to Mourn

I just received this heartbreaking e-mail from Endurance's church a few minutes ago:

Endurance passed away this morning. His heart stopped and the doctors were not able to get it started again after half an hour of trying.

Thank you all for your many hours of prayers and fasting, for your visits and calls and e-mails and gifts, and countless other expressions of love and encouragement to the Holstons. I know you will continue to show your love to them in the days ahead.

Please continue to pray for this dear family. We will let you know more details as we get them.

May the God of all comfort comfort us all as we grieve with the Holstons.

Our hearts go out to this family; we have come to love them from a distance as we talk with them and observe their unswerving faith in God and desire to glorify Him through the ups and downs.

Let us all keep the Holston family in our prayers as we mourn with them the loss of their precious son.

Ecclesiastes 3:4 - A time to weep , and a time to laugh; a time to mourn , and a time to dance....

Endurance and his mother, a few months ago

Endurance's blog: Run with Endurance
Endurance's facebook page: www.facebook.com/prayersforendurance

Urgent Prayer Request for Endurance Holston

Our family has been administrating a facebook page for a dear family whose 8-month-old son, Endurance, has been in the hospital (several hospitals, in fact) since birth with severe heart issues. For some background, visit their blog, "Run With Endurance." (This post gives some good background on his birth and heart difficulties.)

Endurance is currently in his long-awaited 8-hour surgery on his heart. Just finding a surgeon who would perform the surgery for him was a huge answer to prayer, and involved a cross-country hospital move for Endurance and his family.

The latest update from Mike & Heather (Endurance's parents) is as follows, and includes an urgent prayer request:

We now ask for prayer for this.....Dr. Galantowicz will take Endurance off of his heart/lung bypass machine when he's completely finished. This will tell the doctor if Endurance's heart will tolerate being on its own. If his heart doesn't accept being off of the machine (Seattle told us he'd never survive off of this), Dr. Galantowicz will put him back on for one hour. If he can't come off, Endurance will basically pass away there. He's in God's hands. May it please Him to have Endurance survive on his own.

Please be praying for Endurance as he comes out of surgery in the next little while. Follow his facebook page for regular updates, and visit his blog for more details!

Endurance's family has consistently glorified and trusted in the Lord through all of the ups and downs since Endurance's birth. Please pray for strength for them at this time!

Endurance with one of his 6 older siblings