Blessings and Appointments...

Hello Dear Ones!

The Lord, our Omnipotent Savior has tenderly blessed us at every turn. It seems like I can hardly keep up in response to His goodness. The last week has been a whirlwind, and it looks like the next two will be more intense. We take comfort knowing that our Lord is perfectly orchestrating these events for our good and that even our faith to trust Him is His gift to us.

Some of the highlights of this week include:

• Having sweet "farewell" fellowship with (our Sunday school pastor) Carey and Pam Hardy before they drive to their new home and ministry in Winston Salem, NC. This was a great time recounting the last ten years of ministry together, expressing our love for one another. God was so good to allow us that time.
  
  
• Enjoying the opportunity to take Jody to church Sunday was so wonderful - the teaching and worship was incredible and the fellowship with many of our Grace missionaries (who are in town) was so amazing.
  
  
• Answered prayer in that we have begun a new drug for Jody with a complete consensus from our diverse medical team - no small task! Jody literally asked the Lord for a "candy-gram" regarding our decision, and He provided it in the form of an unexpected consensus that "now is the time to go forward" with this molecularly targeted drug. We are beseeching the Lord to use it mightily for His glory and her benefit.
  
  
• Jody has begun physical therapy for her "frozen shoulder" problem under the direction of a great Orthopedic surgeon. We are now enrolled 3x a week with a terrific therapist. Getting started on this was a huge relief.
  

• We humbly thank the Lord for providing for us this week in such a personal, special way through the generosity of His people. God continues to meet our specific needs right on time, and only He could know what those needs are. Praise the Lord!

We ask you to pray for Jody's strength for the next couple of weeks as she has many scans, follow-up appointments, procedures etc. almost every single day. We have tried to consolidate them as best we can but there is no avoiding these important dates. All of them must fit into an already "fully engaged battle plan". God knows, and we trust in Him alone!

Tomorrow we will have another thoracentesis for Jody's lung. We pray that the benefit of this procedure will go smoothly and last longer.

Thank you for your labor in prayer! Words fail to describe how thankful we are to those who intercede for us. May you be blessed beyond what you can ask or think!

2Pet. 1:2-3 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.