What’s Behind the Power of Prayer?
By Gurney Williams III Kelli and Andy Martin decided before they were even married that they wanted five kids. “Enough for a basketball team,” says Kelli, an athletic and sunny 33-year-old who teaches sixth grade in Leawood, Kansas. She and Andy, also 33 and a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch, had never had trouble fulfilling their hopes, and having children was one of the biggest. But after they married in 1994, neither of them saw any need to rush. She went to graduate school to get her teaching credentials; he picked up her tuition bills and built his career. A couple of years passed before they decided they were finally ready. “We kind of drew up a proclamation that we were officially trying,” she says. before they decided they were finally ready. “We kind of drew up a proclamation that we were officially trying,” she says. But trying, apparently, wasn’t enough. A year after they’d declared themselves ready, they also started meeting with a succession of doctors. In each visi
