She Sued a “Christian” Health Ministry From Her Deathbed. Her Sisters Are Still Fighting.

She Sued a “Christian” Health Ministry From Her Deathbed. Her Sisters Are Still Fighting.

In October 2021, four people signed onto a federal lawsuit against the ministry they believed had failed them: William Rooker of Maryland, Rochelle Glasgow of Montana, Donna Landry of Washington, and Bonnie Martin, also of Maryland. Nine months later, Bonnie Martin died of the cancer she had been fighting since 2018 — still owing money to the hospitals that had treated her, still waiting for the case she had helped start to reach a hearing.

Her sisters did not withdraw it. Rochelle and Donna, together with their sister Joanne Gabris, buried Bonnie in the summer of 2022 and kept going. As of the most recent public filings, the case — now captioned Glasgow v. Beers — is still moving through the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, where a motion for class certification has been pending since 2025 without a ruling. Four years after Bonnie Martin put her name on a complaint, no court has yet been made to formally answer for what happened to her.

What the photographs from her memorial do not show is what her sisters already knew: that Bonnie had spent her final months not resting, but pleading — by phone, by email, and once in pen across the top of an overdue bill, in a line she underlined and that has since become part of the public record: WHY HAS THIS NOT BEEN PAID?

Bonnie was not especially religious, by her family’s account. But when she needed a way to pay for cancer treatment outside traditional insurance, she chose an organization that promised something insurance companies do not: to carry her burden, in the language of Scripture, because a community of believers had pledged to carry it together…

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