A community is asking for prayers of salvation and healing as one of their own is facing a family crisis.

Union Gospel Mission says one of their members, Marcel, is calling the community for prayer. His brother Billy is currently in a coma, is a COVID-19 patient, and has lost a lot of blood due to internal bleeding from an ulcer.

"Billy is one of three surviving brothers of five. Life has been tough, real tough," they say in a statement. They said the brothers are victims of circumstance who were in desperate need of help.

They say Marcel turned to the Lord in 2015 with them and is deeply concerned for Billy's health, physical and spiritual. 

"He is a man who shines Jesus, a man who loves Jesus and a man who is deeply concerned for Billy’s eternal destiny.  A man who desperately wants to be at Billy’s bedside right now, but who is forbidden by COVID protocols."

They say there is concern that if Billy wakes up he will have brain damage.

"Can we join with Marcel and plead the Lord for Billy’s salvation and for his healing? No human barriers, no human protocols, no wicked plans of the enemy can get in the way of Jesus."

UGM says Marcel is hoping Billy will find an eternal home with the Lord.