Colleen's Prayer Updates

Dear Prayer Partners,

Warmest Greetings to you in His Precious Name!

1. I want to thank you for praying for me as I applied for my 5 year residential permit. Praise God I found favour in the eyes of the Immigration Official, who asked me a question, “Why do you do so much for others?”, to which I replied accordingly and he said, “God looks after those who help others”. He was very curious to see my first passport when I first came to India in 1964!!. He granted me a further five years. I pick up my papers on Thursday afternoon. All glory to the Lord.

2. In regard to Baby Jayden, the blood test report taken for copper serum was very low. It was 12.2 against 70.00 to 150.00. The doctor has said that the cells in the brain which are already damaged cannot be repaired but further damages can be stopped if the copper is administered at the earliest. Copper Chloride will be given intravenously on daily basis and the blood test will be done simultaneously to check if the copper has reached to its requirement. For head control, physiotherapy has to be done once the seizures are controlled. Please pray that there should not be any side effects after all this medication since this little baby has suffered to the extreme due to this, which the doctors could detect only now. Had it been left, the parents would have lost their baby. Praise God that some medicine has been located in Miami, USA, but as it is going to be an ongoing need, if anybody else knows where to locate this medicine, please let us know.

3. Urgent prayer is asked for a 5 year old UKG Bethany School boy called Sanjay who has a cancer tumour on his left shoulder (Ewing Sarcoma Tumor Clavicle (L). The mother is very poor. The child is on chemotherapy and we are giving some extra nourishment to him. To look at the child’s shoulder is awful, but our God is able to touch this child and heal him. This boy is in Cedar Fund sponsorship program, so please be much in prayer for him.

4. Thank you to all of you who prayed for John Joseph. Because he was a high risk patient, he had open heart surgery last Friday afternoon. The operation went on till 10.30 p.m. at night. After surgery the doctor phoned to tell me he was stable and was shifted to the intensive care unit. After 24 hours in the ICU he was shifted to a private room. He is not allowed any visitors to prevent infection. He is improving day by day. It is a miracle of God and John also realizes this. He is in touch with me on the phone. Please pray much that he will gain good health and strength and make the best of the new lease of life that God has given him and draw very close to the Lord and become a powerful man of God. He has an ulcer on his leg that he has had for 11 years. This is also being treated. Pray for complete healing.

The team from Scotland and Northern Ireland arrived safely, but without their luggage. Please pray that their luggage will be brought quickly to them on the next British Airways flight tonight. They were late getting into Heathrow and had only 20 minutes to board the flight to India, and no time for their luggage to be transferred.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, we will be having 21 foreigners in our chapel. It is such a joy to us.

Please let us know when you receive this email. My God bless you abundantly.

With warmest greetings,

Colleen