Ozarks pastor claims his prayers helped regrow woman’s three amputated TOES during service

Pastors in the Ozarks have publicly claimed that they were able to regrow a woman’s three amputated fingers in just 30 minutes with the power of prayer.

The megachurch’s pastor, John Lindell, made the claim during a live broadcast of the James River Church service on March 15.

He said the “creative miracle” occurred the day before on the Joplin James River Church campus as guest pastor Bill Johnson was leading a prayer service for the church’s Power Week.

Kristina Sue Dines has publicly backed the claims, saying in a video for the church that she can now stand on her toes after she was shot by her abusive ex-husband. But no one has offered any proof of the so-called miracle.

Now, many are asking for before and after photos of Dines’ feet, going so far as to create a website at ShowMetheToes.com.

James River Church pastor John Lindell, left, claimed at a March 15 service that guest pastor Bill Johnson, right, was able to regrow a woman’s three amputated fingers in just 30 minutes with the power of prayer.

A website has been created at ShowMetheToes.com asking for proof of the so-called miracle.

Dines, later Kristina Thompson, lost all three of her toes after she was shot by her ex-husband on June 10, 2015.

She had just left her abusive partner, filed an ex-parte divorce against him, and was living with a friend when her ex walked through the garage door, KOAM reported at the time.

Dines and her friend were able to escape through a bedroom window, but not before Dines was shot at point-blank range.

When police found her in Joplin, Missouri, Dines had a 12-inch hole in her abdomen and only about a pint of blood remained in her system.

He was in a coma for two months after the shooting and lost half of his stomach, parts of his intestines, and three toes.

Later, KOAM reported, he allegedly had trouble walking.

But when he attended the ‘creative miracle’ service at the Joplin James River Church campus on March 14, Lindell said ‘prayer team members’ prayed for his ‘reformed’ foot and toes.

“While the ladies prayed for Krissy for the next 30 minutes, all three of her toes grew and, at that point, were longer than her little finger,” she said. “Within an hour, the nails began to grow on all the toes.”

Kristina Sue Dines has publicly backed the claims, saying in a video for the church that she can now stand on her toes after her abusive ex-husband shot them.

Dines said in a video for the megachurch that he decided to attend the “creative miracle” service because he needed to regrow his toes.

He said he took off his shoes when Johnson asked to “see the progress” and saw his toes reshape.

Speaking about the miracle in a video recorded for the congregation, Dines said he decided to attend the “creative miracles” service because “I thought, ‘Well, I certainly have a creative miracle that I might need.’ I need three toes to grow back.

At the service, she said: ‘The person next to me said: ‘Do you want new fingers?’ And I was like, ‘Well, sure.

At that point, Dines said, ‘All the women got down and prayed over my foot and I decided to take off my shoe to see what would happen when [Johnson] he said ‘Let’s see the progress, or if something has happened’.

‘And when I did, I had to grab the person next to me and say, ‘Do you see what I see?’ And I saw three toes that were forming, and now they have length.

“Tonight, I can stand on my toes,” he stated. ‘Listen, do you understand? I can stand on tiptoes.

‘No, I couldn’t do that because I didn’t have toes to move on.’

Lindell, the senior pastor of James River Church in Missouri, suggested that his parishioners could use the power of prayer to raise the dead.

The miracle allegedly occurred on March 14 on the Joplin James River Church campus.

Johnson has said that ‘creative miracles’ are different from healing, and that he was ‘healing by decree, according to how God’s world works’.

For example, if someone loses cartilage in their knees, ‘I put my hand on their knee and say, ‘God, let all things be made new.’ I call to be cartilage in this knee,” he explained at the March 15 service.

He then went on to allege that one of his friends was able to regrow a kidney as a result of ‘creative miracle’ prayer services, saying: ‘We had a friend who had to have his kidney removed because he was sick and he went in. for another type of X-ray a year later, and they found that he had a new kidney.

“He was in a meeting where he was prayed for and the Lord created that.”

Lindell later claimed that these powerful prayers can do even more, like raise the dead.

‘I’m going to say something else and I don’t say it lightly. But I think you need to know what’s going to happen: there will be, some of you are going to raise people from the dead.

“I’m not saying that everyone will rise from the dead,” he clarified. I’m just saying there are some people in this room, you’re going to raise people from the dead. It will happen.

Johnson, who runs his own church in Redding, California, has previously made national headlines for trying to do just that in 2019 when some of his parishioners at Bethel Church suddenly lost their two-year-old daughter.

The church said in a statement at the time: ‘Bethel Church believes in the stories of healing and physical resurrection found in the Bible. (Matthew 10:8), and that the miracles they represent are possible today.’

And Johnson posted a video on Facebook in which he stated: ‘We have a biblical precedent. Jesus raised the dead.