Believe it or don't...calling out to Carol...John Wayne was always bald and he had a woman's name
Found this:
Robert Schuller's teenage daughter, Cindy, was in a motorcycle accident and had to have her leg amputated. John Wayne is a big fan of Robert Schuller....John Wayne wrote a note to her saying:
Dear Cindy, sorry to hear about your accident. Hope you will be all right. Signed, John Wayne
The note was delivered to her and she decided she wanted to write John Wayne a note in reply. She wrote: Dear Mr. Wayne, I got your note. Thanks for writing to me. I like you very much. I am going to be all right because Jesus is going to help me. Mr. Wayne, do you know Jesus? I sure hope you know Jesus, Mr. Wayne, because I cannot imagine Heaven being complete without John Wayne being there. I hope, if
you don't know Jesus, that you will give your heart to Jesus right now. See you in Heaven. Signed Cindy....
John Wayne was seated at the end of the table and the guy took the letter out and said: Hey, Duke, I visited with Schuller's daughter in her hospital room today and she wrote you a letter and wanted me to give it to you. Here it is. They passed it down to John Wayne and he opened it....
Then he began to weep. He folded it, put it in his pocket, and he pointed to the man who delivered it to him and said: "You go tell that little lady that right now, in this restaurant, right here, John Wayne gives his heart to Jesus Christ and I will see her in heaven."
Three weeks later, John Wayne died.
You never know how your witness to another will effect their eternity!
Then I read this:
This is an unusual one because those who would have first-hand knowledge of the story do not remember it. The name of Dr. Schuller's daughter who experienced the accident and the loss of her leg is Carol, not Cindy. She tells TruthOrFiction.com that there was a communication from John Wayne after her accident, but says she was so "out of it" that she doesn't remember if she sent a note back to him and, if she did, does not know whether he made a spiritual decision as a result of it. In a sermon titled "Joy...God's Gift To You" that was delivered two years after Carol's accident, Dr. Schuller said that John Wayne did send an autographed picture to Carol with the inscription, "Be Happy, You're Loved!" The timing of the note in the eRumor is incorrect. The eRumor says John Wayne died three weeks afterwards. Carol Schuller's accident was in 1978. John Wayne died in June of 1979.
And then I read this:
There was a rumor circulated on the Internet through email and newsgroups stating that a letter from a child prompted John Wayne to "accept Jesus as his personal saviour" in the final weeks of his life. Another part of the rumor is that he became a member of Schuller's Crystal Cathedral congregation. Whoever exaggerated and altered events in order to write the account at the center of the rumor may have intended to tell a morality tale about the way small acts of faith and charity can have a significant influence on others. But from a Christian perspective, the "miraculous" conversion suggested by this story was unnecessary: John Wayne was already a Christian. Wayne was born into a Christian (Presbyterian) family and he lived his life as a Christian (a Protestant and eventually a Catholic).
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