Donald and Erica Roman

This fund is to help support our members, Donald and Erica Roman, and family during challenging times in their lives.

 

 

Erica serves as a greeter, serves in outreach and just recently  joined the admin ministry supporting our church and alongside Pastor Joe.  Donald serves on the Production team and supports the family, while Erica is in a season of taking care of her health and their youngest son Kingston. They are in need of blessings and prayers as we come along with them during this time.

 

Words from Erica Roman and family:

 

First and foremost we are followers of Christ and we truly believe that God is the center of our lives during good times and during bad times, we choose to continue to rejoice in him.

That being said I have faith that he will get us through our current situation. We are a family of 5 in the home year around and in the summer my husband's other 2 kids come down from Maryland to spend time,  making us a family of 7!!! Back in July, we moved our family from North Port to Wimauma, at the time my husband and I were both working. We have always been very independent and haven’t experienced any financial troubles as a couple in the 4 years we’ve been together. But as you know, when we think we have everything planned out our way that’s when God shows us that he’s the one in control and it’s his plan not ours.

I, was involved in an auto accident not too long ago before we moved to Wimauma and although I had already been dealing with the effects of that accident and the injuries sustained to my neck and upper back, a concussion and whiplash, it wasn’t until we moved here that my doctors discovered that I also have a traumatic brain injury. I had already had three procedures and many injections in my cervical spine but when we moved here I had to start physical therapy and also TBI therapy which consisted of me going twice a week for both which made it hard for me to keep on working full-time.

Then shortly after Christmas my doctor put me on restrictions with my range of motion and because of those restrictions my employer had to put me on an involuntary medical leave of absence until my restrictions were lifted because there was no place in the pharmacy they could place me that wouldn’t have me doing the things my doctor wanted me to avoid. So I have not been able to work since December 23rd 2021. We thought we’d be okay until we realized that the restrictions were going to be a lot longer than we had anticipated and whatever money that we had saved up in our savings account unfortunately we had to live off of for the last four months so now that is all gone as well. 

 

Simultaneously, our 2 1/2-year-old was recently diagnosed with autism and he was already doing early intervention therapy since he was 1 years old because all his Doctors suspected he was autistic. So with his recent diagnosis the doctors have suggested to add on 18 to 20 hours of ABA therapy alongside his speech therapy, occupational therapy and feeding therapy.

 

 

 

Realizing now that this might be a season I personally won’t be able to maintain a full-time job, although it wasn’t something that I would have hoped for I am realizing, maybe I am entering this season because I need to just focus on my full recovery and focus on being here for my son,  to continue to work with him on all of his early intervention therapies so he can be his best self!

 

Just writing all of this down creates a lot of anxiety and makes me feel completely overwhelmed with stress and worry but I am learning that God wants my husband and I to be still, listen to his voice, to lean on him instead and wait on his plan, what HE wants us to do next in the journey he has laid out for us.

My husband and I have struggled with pride and control, feeling like we can do everything on our own and I feel deep in my heart that God is really trying to teach us an important lesson, that HE is the one in control and that we need to trust in him and to be humble. So with child like faith I am trusting in our Lord and believing without a doubt that he will get us through this difficult time, he has shown up in so many ways already and for that I am so thankful.

~ Erica Roman

 

Family,

Thank you for coming alongside the Roman's to support them during their difficult time.

May the Lord supply, pour out a double portion on you all as you search your heart to donate. If you cannot please pray for the kids. Donald as he learns to be the provider and thank God for opening up doors to teach us when to rely on him and trust in his timing when we go through seasons in our lives.

 

Thank You Crossing Family.