Lay MONK dANNy: God's MuSiciAN

(1.) Painting:  Journey of the Magi.   (2.) One of 11 ancient Churches carved from the rock in Lalibela, Ethiopia.   (3.) Lay Monk Danny by the Columbia River, the border between Oregon and Washington.

     “Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.”

-Psalm 33:3

KBOO Guide 90.7 FM Portland, Oregon

Guitarist Danny Drayer: -- New Treatment for Brain Problem Available

 

By Patti David

 

Portland guitarist Danny Drayer had been suffering from debilitating headaches for a long time.

 

When he would see Doctors, the diagnosis was that he had the flu.  No one knew how serious the condition really was, until the headaches that Danny was having began causing blindness, and paralysis in his legs for a month at a time.  

CD: "Take It Easy" by Danny L. Drayer

 

By Becky Harrison

 

If you fancy meaningful harmony on guitar, drums, and synthesizer, check out Danny Drayer, a brilliant musician and composer who created his CD: “Take It Easy.” 

 

Not letting anything hold him back, Danny produced, designed, composed, arranged, and played every instrument on his own musical release. 

 

  Drayer has an abnormally large Arterial Venus Malformation, which affects six out of every 1,000 people.

 

“One percent of all strokes are caused by or associated with AVMs,” said Martin Johnson, M.D., Drayer’s neurosurgeon. 

 

Johnson, who has performed about four AVM resections or removals every year for the past 22 years, said that AVMs are congenital.

 

AVMs are groups of torturously-malformed blood vessels found in the brain’s cerebral hemispheres. 

 

Like aneurisms, they can rupture at any time.  Aneurisms affect only arteries, but AVMs affect all three types of blood vessels in the brain (arteries, veins, and capillaries).

 

Embolization is the insertion of tiny silastic spheres into specific blood vessels, to channel blood flow away from the AVM.  

 

The technique had only been done at the Barrow Neurological Institute  in Phoenix, Arizona, at the University of California in San Diego, and at Stanford University.  Charles Kerber, M.D., of La Mesa, California, had to fly to Portland four times over an eight-week period to embolize Drayer.

 

To date, Danny has undergone surgery over thirty times in attempts to correct this problem. 

 

Once he was brought to the Hospital and declared DOA (Dead On Arrival).  When he came back to life and learned of what had happened, Danny gave his life to Jesus.  Now he gives thanks to God for every new day he receives. 

 

“I’m a little scared, but I’m putting my faith in God. 

 

You have to live out your life and live it to the fullest and be happy.  I could be scheduled for surgery, but I could just as easily be hit by a truck, and it would be my time to go.   So I’m not living on thin ice, I’m just  being happy.”

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(Article Re-printed by Permission.)

 

Christ washes Peter's and the other Disciples' feet (John 13:3-10). (Painting from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.)

“I couldn’t postpone my musical dream anymore.”

 

The quality of “Take It Easy” is very smooth and sounds as though it were mixed in a large studio.  All ten tracks are wonderfully mixed and pleasant to the ears. 

 

Wings, track number eight, is dedicated to my late brother, Victor, and my late sister, Beveline.”

 

Danny has been a self-taught musician since the age of seven. 

 

He has survived an embolism and years of recovery, and never strayed from his passion.

 

You can enjoy his music on “Take It Easy.”

 

KBOO  90.7 FM has a copy in their music library; you can call and request a few tracks from Danny’s CD at: (503) 231-8187

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(Article Re-printed by Permission.)

 

Lay Monk Danny: God's Musician

yOuR CoMMENtS: (ELLENi, EtHiOpiA)

I have been pleasantly surprised to know that there are Protestant Lay Monks. 

 

Devotion to God I believe is the highest calling here on this Earth…

 

Thanks for the prayer!

Elleni (Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia)

yOuR COMMENtS: (Lay MonK WiLLiAM)

To Lay Monk Danny & All My Brother and Sister Knights of Prayer Lay Monks Throughout the World:

 

My brothers and sisters in China are under the gun, strong, and growing.  Glory be to our Father and His Son Jesus Christ.

 

I am planning a trip to Uganda next winter, Lord willing.  I will be working with two orphanages there, being grandfather, storyteller, and helping students write letters to sponsors here in the USA and in Europe.

 

Your prayers and thoughts are like gold. 

Lay Monk William (Missionary)

pHiLLip & tHE EtHiOpiAN (ActS 8:26-40)

 

“And the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: ‘Arise, and go toward the south on the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza, in the desert.’

 

And he arose and went, and beheld a man from Ethiopia, a Eunuch of great authority under Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasure.

 

He had come to Jerusalem to worship, and was now returning; riding in his chariot, and reading the prophet Isaiah.

 

Then the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go now, and overtake this chariot.’  And Philip ran after him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’

 

And the Ethiopian answered, ‘How can I, unless someone guides me?  And he asked Philip to climb up and sit with him.

 

The portion of Scripture which he had been reading was this:  “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb silent before His shearer, He did not open His mouth.

 

In His humiliation, His justice was taken away; and who shall declare his descendants?  For His life is taken from the earth.”

 

And the Eunuch answered Philip, asking, ‘Who is the prophet speaking about?  Himself, or some other man?’

 

Then Philip answered, and beginning at the same Scripture, explained to him about Jesus.

 

And as they went on their way, they arrived at a place where there was water, and the Eunuch said,

 

‘See, here is water; what prevents me from being baptized?’

 

 

And Philip said, ‘If you believe with all your heart, you may be baptized.’

 

And the Ethiopian answered,

‘I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.’

 

And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they went into the water, both Philip and the Eunuch; and Philip baptized him.

 

And when they arose out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip;

 

so that the Eunuch saw him no more, and he went on his way rejoicing.

 

But Philip was found at Azotus; and passing through, he preached in all the cities, until he arrived at Caesarea.

   

-Acts 8:26-40

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(Note: Philip was transported by the Spirit of God to Azotus, a village 50 miles distant from Gaza.)

 

 

 “The Bible teaches that there is only one race on earth:

the human race.  We are all equally descendants

of the First Man and the First Woman.”

 

-Lay Monk S.G. Preston

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                                 “And has made of one blood all nations of men                                 to dwell upon all the face of the earth…”

 

-Acts 17:26

 

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