Thursday, December 04, 2008

Some prayer requests...

Please be in prayer for Betina Marr. She has been fighting brain cancer for many years. Her fight has included two surgeries, if I am remembering correctly. Recently she started showing signs of tumor growth and has been in the hospital in Montevideo for about a month now. The doctors did some studies and the panel of doctors decided that surgery was not an option this time as the tumor is too large. They are sending her back home in Colonia to receive chemotherapy here. Pray for healing, if the Lord wills; For strength for her children: Tatiana, Maicol, Eliana, Camila and Martina; For us to be a help and blessing to this family right now.

Alicia Villanueva (in the picture below with the institute students, she is the 2nd lady from the left in the front row) is also in need of our prayers. As she was starting her moto it began to drive off while she was still on the pavement. She used the hand brake to stop it but then the moto fell over. Because her hand was near the opening of the brake handle her index finger was caught and severed. Evidently she was very calm and asked the man of the house where she fell if he would help her. When he got to her she told him she was looking for her finger. Later the surgeon had to remove the rest of her finger to the hand joint. She was praising the Lord last night when we visited her in the hospital and thankful that she writes with her left hand, which is still intact.

As for Pablo and Julia. They are still in critical condition. The last report I read was that she would have to have some of her fingertips amputated. But she is finally, this week, making some prgress and is free, right now, of infection. Pablo has been taken out of his induced coma and is also improving. They both still have a very long way to go and we need to continue on in our prayers for them.

Belen Mengen had a follow-up brain scan and everything looks good. She is doing very well. Praise the Lord!

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