Enterprise teen walks across Alabama to raise money for missionaries

Lina Portman2 weeks ago

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ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) – An Enterprise teen is on a mission to support missionaries by walking across Alabama.

17-year-old Grason Wallace is an overcomer, after two tragic accidents early on made it unclear whether he would ever walk again.

It's a 218-mile journey, but for Wallace, it's all worth it.

“I really felt like God was telling me to do it,” Wallace said. “I’m going to raise as much money as I can.”

Wallace attends Enterprise First Assembly of God.

He is walking to raise money for Speed the Lighta program supporting missionaries around the world.

“I'm joyful that I am able to do it and give back to those who have given up so much,” Wallace said.

Wallace is taking the trek with his student pastor Tyler Sawyer as and missionary Brad Sasser.

“I was like although this is going to be hard, but if this is what god is telling you to do, most definitely we'll do it,” Sawyer said.

They started in Silas in the furthest reaches of Alabama and will trek to Columbia along the Chattahoochee River bank in Houston County.

“As a youth pastor your heart couldn't be any bigger. At first, I'm not going to lie, I was like I don't know that's a long way…but you know God is faithful and I know he will give us the strength to do it,” Sawyer said.

Wallace's journey in life though started out challenging.

“When he was two, he fell off the porch. He broke both of his arms, fractured his skull, broke his nose, tore the dura tissue that keeps the spinal fluid around your brain,” Grason's mother DeAnn Wallace said.

Then at three years old, DeAnn said he was left seriously injured from a car accident.

“He has had 14 surgeries total,” DeAnn said. “Between all that somewhere they hit a nerve and when he got up to walk he couldn't walk, and he was dragging his left leg so he to go to therapy he had to re-learn how to walk.”

Grason has come a long way.

Now—he is an accomplished runner and of course—right now he's walking more than 200 miles.

He struggled for so long, but now he's running cross country and he makes it look easy and now he wants to walk across the state. So, I know he's giving God the praise and I'm excited for him too because that's only by God.”

With every step along the seven day trip they hope to be a bright light.

“We're trying to show that no matter how hard or how big the situation may seem that through God anything is possible,” Sawyer said.

“With me being able to do this walk, walking 218 miles, is a gift to show people that hey God can do anything. He can cure anyone, and I am a living witness to that,” Grason said

The team started walking on Wednesday morning and will do Facebook lives each day from the EFA Church Facebook page.

If you would like to donate, you can do so here through the church's website. Just label the donation “Walk Across Alabama.”

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