Back in March, we shared the story of Brandon Vaughan and his wife, Leah, a couple who feel God used incredible measures to call them from Tuscaloosa to the West.
Leah had been experiencing massive, debilitating headaches, and regardless of what doctors tried, she couldn’t get any relief. That is, until one day Brandon realized she seemed to do better in places with higher elevation, and they started experimenting.
One thing led to another, and they traveled out to Utah — and as their son put it, “we got our mom back.”
That led them to start thinking about moving out there permanently.
“We thought at first that we would have to come here as church planting missionaries, simply because there aren’t a lot of Baptist churches in this area,” said Brandon Vaughan, former pastor of Little Sandy Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa. “This would require up to two years of raising support in a COVID-19 world, all the while Leah would be in pain. But the Lord worked it all out in an amazing way.”
In 2019, while in Los Angeles on a medical missions trip, they got connected with nearby Lighthouse Baptist Church, which had helped plant Grace Baptist Church in Logan, Utah. Months later, when Lighthouse’s pastor heard Vaughan was looking to move West, he called and told him Grace Baptist was in need of a pastor.
It was a good fit. And the night the family loaded up the moving van in Tuscaloosa, they were able to swing by Little Sandy’s revival.
‘Amazing’ moment
“I was able to stand up in front of the church and tell them what the Lord had done, thank them for the memories and tell them that we loved them,” he said. “The amazing thing about this moment is that it was exactly one year to the day that Leah came down with this headache — April 14.”
Leah isn’t 100%, but “her quality of life is infinitely better here, and we know that we are in God’s will,” Vaughan said. “We love our church family here in Logan and look forward to what God has in store for the future.”
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