In a room at Methodist Hospital, members of Texas family sit, watch, listen and pray for their son and brother, an FFA conventioneer who fell three stories in a Downtown mall.

“We pretty much pray non-stop, though not all of it is out loud,” said Bobby Smithson, an independent Christian Protestant pastor.

It’s in the hospital’s critical care where Phillip Caler, 16, fights for survival.

Caler fell 41 feet a week ago in an escalator accident at Circle Centre Mall while attending the Future Farmers of America Convention.

He is in a coma. His brain was damaged. Caler is using a respirator to help him breath. He fractured six vertebrae, has a broken shoulder blade, a fractured pelvis and fractured eye socket. The improvement has been slight since he entered the hospital.

He is going in for three hours of surgery Friday to fix a broken arm.

Phillip’s parents flew from Booker, Texas, to Indianapolis hours after hearing of the accident. Gary and Bianca Caler are here with Phillip’s sisters, ages 13 and 10. Gary Caler declined to talk about the ordeal.

The family’s days are spent in the hospital room or on the hospital grounds when the children need to stretch or the parents need some air.

“It’s us five together with Phillip,” Smithson said.

Back home, students and friends at Booker High School call Smithson 20 times a day.

“They say if they could come up right now, they would,’ he said. “I tell them praying is enough for now.”