A couple from East Texas have decided to dedicate their lives to helping others restore their faith in God after they survived a violent car crash.

Jerry and Sheri Beeson were driving on Interstate 20 on the night of May 19, 2018 when they pulled over to help a man who had crashed his Jeep Grand Cherokee.

“We’ve always stopped to help people on the side of the road,” Sheri explained. “I would want someone to stop and help me.”

By 12.30am, a small group of Good Samaritans had gathered on the side of the road to help the man. The group of kindhearted strangers included the Beesons, 18-year-old Justin Woods, and 25-year-old Sylvia Keiter.

Suddenly, Jerry looked over the top of the bridge that they were near and saw a truck barreling towards them.

“And he kept just passing vehicles as he was coming while the others were slowing down,” Justin recalled.

The truck, which was a 2002 Chevy Silverado pickup driven by 48-year-old Brian Keith Woods, hit the jeep. The crash caused the jeep to spin and hit Sheri as well as other members of the group.

“I remember pushing the old man out of the way so he wouldn’t get hit,” Sheri said. “And I just remember laying on the ground trying to crawl to my husband and I couldn’t hardly breathe.”

Sheri had been thrown in the air and hit the guardrail and other cars.

“And all I was doing was asking God to spare me,” Sheri recalled.

Justin was left in serious condition, while Sylvia tragically died of her injuries.

“I didn’t think that I was going to make it,” Sheri added. When Jerry saw his wife, he was stunned by how calm she was.

“When I got to her, her leg look a bomb went off next to it, you know, and so she just kept saying, ‘Jesus help me. Jesus help me,'” Jerry said.

Sheri was left with a pelvic fracture, broken ribs, damaged knees, and lost muscle groups in her leg. Doctors told Justin that her prognosis was not a good one.

“Mr. Beeson, it’s the worst leg we’ve ever seen still attached to the body. We are going have to amputate,” a doctor told him. Jerry added, “You know and you listen to that a couple times and then you — something just wells up inside you and says, ‘No that’s not going to happen.'”

Jerry and Sheri took to social media to ask friends, family, and strangers to pray. Their post quickly went viral, and some people even started organizing simultaneous prayers for Sheri.

“I’ve had so many people reach out to me on Facebook and just tell me to keep going strong,” Sheri said. She added that the prayers and support helped her get through more than twenty surgeries to save her leg.

“I’ve learned I have more faith than I ever thought I did,” Sheri said.

Sheri’s supporters and others at the hospital have been shocked by the progress she has made.

“She’s moving her foot. She’s moving her ankle. She’s moving her toes,” Jerry said. “You know, of a leg that’s not technically attached, you just have to believe that there’s more to it than this.”

“I know the Bible says, you know, if you have the faith of a mustard seed — and I have that much. And I hang on to that,” Sheri said. “I’m not a perfect person and I have hope. And I guess hope keeps me going.”

“Like Sheri said, you know we’re not bad people,” Jerry added. “We probably (weren’t) living our faith the way we should, by any means. And despite that, God still cares enough, you know, for us.”

Both Jerry and Sheri now want to devote their lives to helping others see that anything is possible through prayer.

“God spared me for a reason,” Sheri said. “And that’s what it was. And if they want to call that a miracle, then it’s a miracle.”

“Sometimes he (God) takes just ordinary people and says I’m going do extraordinary things and I’m going get all the glory for it in the midst of it,” Jerry concluded. “And we are those people.”