Pastor's Blog

Urgent – Pastor Max Lara is scheduled to undergo an emergency appendectomy today, 9/2,  at 2:00PM Guatemala time.  The surgery will take place at a private hospital in Chimaltenango.  Pray that all goes well.

Sherry Lavelle e-mailed this morning to share that Pastor Abel Garcia is having (already had?) a nuclear stress test today after having failed an EKG on Monday.  Pray for Pastor Abel.

I am entering this post a mere 10 hours or so since my last entry so I obviously don’t have much in the way of “new” news. 

I spoke to Cecil Guidry via the phone around 9:30PM last night.  They had allowed Miss Vivian to awaken some but her pain is great.  She is on the ventilator which means she can’t talk but she did respond by using her head to give yes & no responses.  The doctors continue to say that she is a very sick lady. 

I also spoke to Whitney Bryant via the phone and received an e-mail from Diane later.  Whitney had to take a pill yesterday in order for them to do the scan tomorrow.  She should get the test results on the following Thursday, 9/10. 

Today is a regular Wednesday for us schedule wise.  I encourage the members of the Friendship family to join us either this morning or tonight. 

Twenty-three years ago this morning, Lisa, Deidra, Daphne, & I were traveling home from a national church softball tournament in North Carolina.  I will never forget stopping somewhere north of Atlanta to call the church office to check in and learning that Lisa’s brother, Michael, had been taken from us in a car accident as he drove to his first day of classes in college.  That memory seems so fresh yet so distant.  Death hurts. (Three years later to the day Dub Ladnier would pass away after a battle with cancer)  I often think of those who have “gone before” and my only consolation is that they are with Jesus and that one day we will be reunited because of Jesus.  Because Jesus lives we can face today! 

Pray without ceasing!