(RNS) — Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts, co-leader of the Dallas megachurch founded by her father, Bishop T.D. Jakes, is recovering after suffering a neck fracture that she said almost paralyzed her in mid-April.
Jakes Roberts, 37, a popular conference speaker, author and co-senior pastor with her husband at The Potter’s House church, posted on social media that she was injured during an accident while playing with her daughter on a trampoline and was hospitalized.
“Last night was scary. I was almost paralyzed, but God didn’t see fit to let that be my story,” Jakes Roberts said in identical posts on Facebook and Instagram on April 19. “I was playing a game with my Ella on the trampoline and landed on my neck. Instantly, I heard several pops in my neck.”
On Sunday (April 26), Pastor Touré Roberts, her husband and co-senior pastor at The Potter’s House, expressed his concern for his wife.
“I love Sarah with all my heart,” he told T.D. Jakes as they began a previously scheduled on-stage discussion at the church about Roberts’ soon-to-be-released book “Knowing: The Journey to Certainty in an Uncertain World.”
“It is absolutely impossible for me to be OK when she is not. So I’m not OK, I’ll be honest with you. I’m not OK. But I am well, well in the sense that I’m grateful to God for delivering her and …