Pastor Keith Stepp's cancer markers are way down! This is wonderful news. He will complete this 30 day period of treatment and then go through two more 30 day periods of treatment . All of this is in preparation for a bone marrow transplant which hopefully will be his healing . The treatments are working!
CAROL'S friend Kathleen had her second chemo treatment and unlike the first, it went very, very well.
JUDI'S mentee, Summer, saw Judi at a mentoring meeting last week. She told Judi that she listened to her voicemail message because she missed her so much. Thank God for this relationship! Summer was 22 last week.
JUDI'S brother, Bobby , is still responding well to his new medication. In preparation for their move to The Villages the family pod arrived today!
JUDY'S niece, Logan, is out of the hospital and back to work.
Judi is asking for prayer for the Mentoring program at the county jail. A meeting will be held at 2:00 tomorrow (Tuesday) with the Administrator of the jail programs which will lead to some major changes for some of the Mentors. Judi is asking God for leadership and a curb on her tongue. Judi is leaning on Scripture Mark 2:14-17 to be her guide.
BETSY and her sister, Bobbie, request travel mercies as they travel to Holland later this week.
Kane is a preemie newborn with heart difficulties. He has been transferred to Shands for care . Please pray for parents, grandparents and great grandparents as their hearts are breaking.
LUCILLE asks us to pray for Janet A. She is seeing a surgeon on April 28 to try and arrange a difficult surgery. She is a rectal cancer survivor and that history makes hernia surgery unusually difficult. She is afraid.
LOIS' brother, Danny, is still in rehab and not doing well. Lois fears depression is setting in. Please pray for the entire family and the difficulties they face. Also, pray protection over Lois as she goes into the situation.
JAN'S friend Megan is suffering breast cancer and just found out she needs a mastectomy.
ROSE has several unnamed personal and family requests.
LOIS visited her neighbor Jim who has been and continues to be so gravely ill. Please continue to pray for him and his wife Deb.
BETTE'S neighbors , Jo and Craig are dealing with his stage four lymphoma. The treatment is very harsh and difficult to endure.
As we pray for these individual situations please always remember to pray for the families and caregivers as well as the person who is ill. We can all relate to the huge physical, emotional and spiritual burden these loved ones carry and their need for support.
Hey y'all!
I am LOVING sending this quick message! It appears that the strong chemo regiment that Keith is on is working! Walking into this regiment less than a month ago, his cancer markers (that should be around 25-26), were up over 1500 and growing aggressively. We finally got the first cancer-marker check for this regiment, and as of yesterday, they were at 685. Praises, praises!!! Now I'm just guessing at this point, but we're thinking that they will probably run him through this 30-day regiment one more time (maybe two), then push him for the stem cell transplant. They are already in process with the paperwork, and we haven't seen any snags yet. What great news!
We'll see how it rolls, but he's seriously considering preaching this week. :-)
Just wanted to drop a quick note to say KEEP THOSE PRAYERS COMING!!!!
Love and Blessings!
--Shannon :-)