the co-senior pastor of The Potter’s House of Dallas<\/a>, is in the hospital with fractures in her neck after falling from a trampoline over the weekend.<\/p>\nThe Potter’s House confirmed the incident in a statement online, saying Jakes-Roberts is recovering after suffering the injury on Saturday while playing on a trampoline with her daughter.<\/p>\n
According to the church, Jakes-Roberts suffered fractures in her neck and related spinal impact from the fall. In time, she is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n
“Last night was scary. I was almost paralyzed, but God didn’t see fit to let that be my story. I was playing a game with my Ella on the trampoline and landed on my neck. Instantly, I heard several pops in my neck. She called her dad, who called 911,” Jakes-Roberts said in a statement. “Two hospitals, several scans, and hours later we learned that I fractured my neck, herniated discs, and endangered areas of my spine that could have left me paralyzed.”<\/p>\n
Jakes-Roberts said she will be wearing a neck brace for 4 to 6 weeks to avoid further damage and keep her neck stable.<\/p>\n
“One disc up or one disc lower and this would’ve been a different testimony,” she said. “I’ll be laying low while I navigate this injury with wisdom. I’m soaking in the presence of God and lots of love from friends and family.”<\/p>\n
Jakes-Roberts was named co-senior pastor of the Potter’s House \u2014 alongside her husband, Tour\u00e9 Roberts \u2014 last July after her father who founded the church, T.D. Jakes, turned the role over to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Last night was scary. I was almost paralyzed, but God didn’t see fit to let that be my…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-258472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}