Friday

“With men this is impossible,

but with God all things are possible.”

~Matthew 19:26~


Kitty Bennett Lapreyrolerie got to go home yesterday. She will have lots of care by home health. Pray she continues to improve.

Quinton West also got to go home. Pray his asthma problem is under control now.

Don Denton

Don Update:

WE received the results from Don’s MRI he had earlier this week. He has Hydrocephalus which is higher than what they would like. We will meet with a Neurosurgeon on Monday. It looks like Don will enter back into the hospital for this surgery sometime next week, although we won’t have that information until we meet with the surgeon. He will have to be off of some of his meds and that monitored before surgery. This surgeon will place a “shunt” at the base of the brain and run a tube into the stomach. This will drain the pressure from the brain.

This could be a theraputic thing for Don possibly relieving the dizziness he is having. At the same time they may collect further data from this such as fluid and possible tissue to do further research.

So we see this as an opportunity for further relief for Don.

The neurologist is unsure as to why this is happening. If could be from scare tissue that has set in from having miningittis. We hope to have further answeres next week.

I had my procedures today. They scoped my stomach and I had a colonoscopy today. So far so good. No answers as of yet.

Please pray for Joshua, until life resumes to somewhat normal, he will continue to have separation anxiety issues. He is so glad to see daddy improving. The look on this childs face when he saw his daddy for the first time get up from a sitting position without the use of some kind of support was pretty amazing. Joshua was so excited he said mommy look, daddy is getting better. Maybe next daddy will be able to make my chocolate milk for me. These are huge places where “normal” is beginning to happen for Josh.

Joshua is so keenly aware of his daddys step backs and his daddys improvement and it brings hope and excitement to Joshua’s day when he sees his daddy making improvements.

In the background of all of this, our dishwasher had caught on fire, as we discovered there was a recall, which we had not been notified about. So for two weeks we are washing dishes by hand, as the process for repair is extremely slow. Our car broke down again in Springfield last week and we just found that there are 5 different things wrong with the car. And we also discovered that our kitchen is not safe with how the contractors set up our circuit breakers.

I sometimes sit and think, wow, what else could happen. Then I get perspective somehow and realize that all of these incidents are “just things” that happen in life, especially when compared to life with one another. Life with one another as we know it. When all of this happened with Don back on September 20th, we were leading a new Sunday School class called “The Journey” – We were starting to teach from the book: “Life Together” by Bonhoffer. We have been compelled to do this study about what life together looks like among believers. What does walking together really look like as Christ taught about it.

We are now experiencing what that looks like as you the church walks with us. I could have never imagined. I am still learning.

We continue to be so thankful to God for bringing Don home to us.

Please pray for Don, he is working in the direction of going back to teaching. He is so hopeful, yet this next week will determine how much better he will be after the surgery.

I will keep you posted. Thank you for your continued love and support and wonderful words of support to us. We have been so encouraged by your cards, your letters and emails.

One more important request:

My sister in law Lynn has her 4th reoccurrence of cancer. This one is on the T4 of the spine. She and my brother Steve were just here helping us out this last time Don was in the hospital. Please pray for her that they will be able to treat this area with radiation. Pray for her husband, STeve and their children. She is a beautiful person. When she was here with us, she gave of herself tirelessly and her spirit is precious. She blessed us in this precious way and we are so grateful to her and my brother for their time spent with us.

Blessings to you our family and friends

Diane

KneEmail
“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” (Philippians 2:10).
Mike Benson, Editor
OF THE DOZENS upon dozens of funerals that I have conducted, I have never conducted one where the casket was occupied by anyone who had anything in his hand…
And none of the suits wrapped around those bodies required pockets. “You can’t take it with you.”
Solomon forces us to face that moment we all tend to ignore — the moment of death. He backs up three spaces and looks at the crash and says, “This is the grievous evil: Those who have clutched can quickly crash.” Put another way, “Those who grabbed and rose to the top will ultimately release and drop to the bottom.”
Can you imagine the scene? I envision a man who hoarded what he had and then lost it through a bad investment. I can see another who fights and wins his way to the top, only to have the bottom drop out of his life as the stock market plunges. And how about the individual who spends himself in a maddening pursuit of some financial goal, who drops dead of a heart attack? It happens every day. In Solomon’s words, he “toils for the wind.” He departs exactly as he entered life…naked and without a thin dime to his name. (Charles Swindoll)
“There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun: riches kept for their owner to his hurt. But those riches perish through misfortune; when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand. As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return, to go as he came; and he shall take nothing from his labor which he may carry away in his hand” (Eccles. 5:13-15).

Prayer requests

“Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these,” Luke 18:16b

SIMPLY TELL THE STORY

One day after a Bible class, some Christian friends went out to lunch. They had just learned how to tell one of the Bible stories to others. One of the Filipino men (people from the Philippines) asked the waiter if he would like to hear a story. The waiter said, “Yes.” He even went to another room and got the workers in that room to come and listen. The Filipino man told the story he had just learned with his friends. It is called “Jesus Calms the Storm.” All the waiters listened and then answered questions about the story. Everyone listening said they understood the story.

The Filipino man then asked them if they knew Jesus. They all said no. That Filipino man told them all about how Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave. He told them they could go to heaven if they followed Jesus. He told the people at the restaurant, “Repent of your sins; just pray these words aloud.” Wow! They bowed their heads and four people accepted Jesus as Savior that day!

MORE PRAYER REQUESTS FROM MISSIONARY KIDS

Please pray for me. I have had a LOT of change in my life. Right now, I need to learn how to speak French and Malagasy. We live in a neighborhood with lots of very poor children. Please pray for me and my family while we work with very poor children in our neighborhood. GRANT, age 5, (Central, Eastern and Southern Africa)

Please pray for the people of Philippines; and more than that, pray that the people of the world will know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. JAMES, age 11 (Pacific Rim)

Please pray for God to show me if I should go to a country in the Pacific Rim to help. BRENNA, age 8 (South Asia)

Please pray for my grandfather to know God. CHANG, age 9 (Pacific Rim)

Pray for my school. JONATHAN, age 9 (Pacific Rim)

We live in Tanzania in a small village half an hour away from Morogoro (moh-roh-GO-roh). Our village is mostly full of mud houses (that is quite common around there.) Our village has many religions—Muslims, African Traditional Religion, Roman Catholic’s, and Christians. We have 3 witch doctors in our village and they have a strong grip on our village. Please pray for; KR a new Christian, FR—my sister and have told them about Jesus.

LAURYNN, age 12 (Central, Eastern and Southern Africa)

Please pray for MD, an African friend who does know Jesus. Pray for MM too. She braids her hair but does not know Jesus. Pray that my Muslim friends will get to know Jesus

REBECCA, age 7 (Central, Eastern and Southern Africa)

Pray for our people group that they may know Jesus. PG, age 12 (East Asia)

I want to pray for my brother and sister and my parents. Also, please pray for the people in the town where I live that they will worship that God and be in heaven. PEYTON, age 8, (Central, Eastern and Southern Africa)


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