Prayers for Jason McCollum

Sad news has reached us today. Jason McCollum, who has spent more than a year at UAB Hospital waiting for a lung transplant, has taken a heartbreaking turn in his fight. Doctors have confirmed that he is now in heart failure. His journey, already incredibly difficult, has grown more complex. They fear that Jason may need not just a lung transplant, but a heart-lung transplant—a procedure far more complicated and rare.

Jason is 48 years old—a devoted husband, father, and friend. For months, his life has been sustained by an ECMO machine, a device that keeps his blood oxygenated while his heart and lungs can no longer do it on their own. This fight has kept him separated from the warmth of home, but not from the love of his family.

Through it all, Jason has shown extraordinary strength. His courage has inspired those who know him and many who only know of him. His determination to keep going, day after day, is a quiet but powerful testament to the human will to live.

Today, his family faces a new and terrifying chapter. They ask for prayers—not out of despair, but out of hope. Hope that he will receive the gift of more time. Hope that his strength, combined with the love surrounding him, will help carry him through the storm.

As night falls, let us hold Jason, his wife Winafred, and their children in our thoughts. Let us speak his name with faith and lift this family with every prayer and act of kindness we can offer.

Because sometimes, when medicine has done all it can, it is love, community, and hope that give people the strength to keep fighting.

Please keep Jason in your prayers tonight. May he feel the weight of that love wrapped around him—steady, unwavering, and strong.