BECAUSE HE BELIEVED is a true story of a miracle. In the year 2000, with a young family at home, Michael began to experience problems with his breathing and lungs. Doctors and specialists have never diagnosed what the underlying cause was. Michael was told time and time again that his lung condition was untreatable. But he never gave up hope even after hearing a double lung transplant was his only option to sustain life. Michael had a strong will to live. He never saw himself dying at the young age of 53. Michael remained true to his religious beliefs that he was going to defy all odds but didn’t quite know how until the day he met Annette Bruchu.

On March 17, 2015, Michael Germain endured a double-lung transplant. Not long after, he survived a near-fatal virus that attacked his new lungs. By all accounts and statistics, Michael Germain probably should have died. But he didn’t…Because He Believed.