Mr. Aaron Guzman

I pray for you guys daily and have realized how blessed I am to have had (and still have!) Aaron as a pseudo-big brother growing up.
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Gage Middle School teacher Aaron Guzman and his wife, Kari, planned to fly to Ethiopia this weekend to help the poor and sick.
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"I need people that are going to be committed to praying for her for a long, long time," Guzman, 26, said.

July 17 started out as a good day, Guzman recalled.After attending a wedding of a friend in Leoti, Kan., the couple was headed to Morris-Guzman's parents' home in Omaha, Neb.The pair sang along to classic rock tunes on the radio of their rented convertible as they traveled through the Kansas countryside.It was just three days before their third wedding anniversary and they were enjoying time together, Guzman said.

Special to The Press-Enterprise "I need people that are going to be committed to praying for her for a long, long time," said Aaron Guzman, left, about his wife, Kari Morris-Guzman, who is struggling to breathe on her own and has developed pneumonia following an accident on July 17.
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Guzman, who was driving, swerved off the road to avoid hitting the truck.The convertible flipped over in a ditch and landed upside down.The windshield collapsed onto the couple and both had to be pried from the wreckage.Guzman suffered only minor injuries, but his wife could not move.

Morris-Guzman's fifth cervical vertebra was shattered in the accident.She has been able to rotate her forearms and can use her biceps, but cannot move much else below her chest, Guzman said.Doctors are trying to wean her off of a ventilator.

Friends and family have helped immensely, Guzman said.

"That's been the thing that's sustained us," he said.

Soon after the accident, phone trees and a Web site were started to keep well-wishers informed.

"We've gotten e-mails from people we don't even know," Guzman said.

Among those offering support are the staff, parents and students from Gage Middle School, where Guzman is a popular music teacher.
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Guzman said his wife continues to help others, even as she lies in her hospital bed.

"She's sort of the one keeping us all together," he said.
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I know that it may seem difficult at this time but I hope that God will bless Mr. Guzman and his special, heartwarming, beautiful wife, Kari.

Gage Middle School teacher Aaron Guzman and his wife, Kari, planned to fly to Ethiopia this weekend to help the poor and sick.
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"I need people that are going to be committed to praying for her for a long, long time," Guzman, 26, said.

July 17 started out as a good day, Guzman recalled.After attending a wedding of a friend in Leoti, Kan., the couple was headed to Morris-Guzman's parents' home in Omaha, Neb.The pair sang along to classic rock tunes on the radio of their rented convertible as they traveled through the Kansas countryside.It was just three days before their third wedding anniversary and they were enjoying time together, Guzman said.

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"I need people that are going to be committed to praying for her for a long, long time," said Aaron Guzman, left, about his wife, Kari Morris-Guzman, who is struggling to breathe on her own and has developed pneumonia following an accident on July 17.
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Guzman, who was driving, swerved off the road to avoid hitting the truck.The convertible flipped over in a ditch and landed upside down.The windshield collapsed onto the couple and both had to be pried from the wreckage.Guzman suffered only minor injuries, but his wife could not move.

Morris-Guzman's fifth cervical vertebra was shattered in the accident.She has been able to rotate her forearms and can use her biceps, but cannot move much else below her chest, Guzman said.Doctors are trying to wean her off of a ventilator.

Friends and family have helped immensely, Guzman said.

"That's been the thing that's sustained us," he said.

Soon after the accident, phone trees and a Web site were started to keep well-wishers informed.

"We've gotten e-mails from people we don't even know," Guzman said.

Among those offering support are the staff, parents and students from Gage Middle School, where Guzman is a popular music teacher.
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Guzman said his wife continues to help others, even as she lies in her hospital bed.

"She's sort of the one keeping us all together," he said.

Both Kari and her future husband, Aaron, were extremely involved in counseling at youth camps at Sky Lodge as well.

However, her desire to serve others led her in the direction of pursuing an education major at Greenville College.She eventually answered her call to full time Christian service and graduated in 1996 with a degree in Pastoral Ministry.During college, she volunteered at Harbor Light homeless shelter and in the children's program at Lighthouse Free Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri for several years.She was also a Resident Assistant and sang in the college choir.She traveled to Russia twice during college, during which time she developed a passion for mission work.

Kari and Aaron Guzman married on July 20, 2002 after five years of dating and just celebrated their third wedding anniversary.After their marriage, Kari and Aaron moved to Southern California where Kari is pursuing a Master of Divinity at Azusa Pacific University's Haggard School of Theology.She has three classes remaining.Aaron is a middle school music teacher and Kari is the associate pastor of youth at Brookside Free Methodist Church in Redlands, California.