Author: bryan@bmeyers.net (Page 71 of 101)

Friends of Haiti,

In the years we have been sending a newsletter there have been very few times that we have brought up the subject of our personal or health problems and we have always said this is to be about our friends in Haiti rather than us. Sometimes, though, things happen that others need to know about to pray about, and this is one of those times.

Terry has been having blood test after blood test, MRI’s, biopsies, full body x-rays, bone marrow testing, pretty much everything you can think of for the past three months and we have been told recently that she has multiple myeloma. They believe it is in the primary stage; that is good news rather than a stage 1 or worse that little can be done for. Another bone marrow test will be done the 31st of July and the stage it is in will be a little more exact.

Mutiple myeloma is not curable but it is treatable, especially in the primary stage. The medication she will take is by mouth except for one injection each week, and won’t cause some of the side affects traditional chemo does, like loosing your hair. If the treatment works in killing the cancer cells in the bone marrow and in her spine as well, she will have stem cells taken from her blood and then “transplanted” back in after the treatment is finished to rebuild the marrow. Testing will done at the half way point to see if it is working, so we ask your prayers for that.

We ask for your prayers that her health other wise will be good since this affects her immune system, that the treatment does not cause problems other than those we know it will cause, and for her from a mental aspect as well.

A lot to pray about but we know all of you who receive this by mail and I know you will. Terry and I have been married just over 39 years and together longer than that, so I know her well enough to know that she is fully trusting in God with this and in fact the first words she said was, “God already knew this.”

Thank you for praying about this, thank you for your help with the programs and our friends in Haiti. They know and are praying as well.

Serving HIM together,

Steve and Terry

Friends of Haiti,

Over the course of almost twenty years we have had the privilege of crossing paths with many groups, churches and individuals who assist the ministry in different ways — those who sponsor a child to support the schools, those who give to support the feeding programs , those who collect vitamins for the kids or give supplies and bottles for use in clinic or the schools. There are those who give to the general fund in order to make up for a shortfall in one of the other areas if needed and those who have gone and provided physical labor to help build or repair something.

One of those people, Bryan, met Steve in Haiti in the days after the earthquake. Bryan was in Haiti working with one of the larger banks installing computer programs. He had been staying in the Hotel Montana. Slowed by traffic, he had arrived in the parking lot of the hotel just in time to see it collapse, killing almost everyone inside and trapping others, some for days.

After making it back to the bank, spending the night alone in the parking lot, he made it to the American Embassy where he met Steve and their friendship began. They flew to the Dominican Republic together, exchanged numbers and email addresses and the next morning went separate ways, more than likely thinking they would never hear from each other again.

Bryan did make contact and wanted to help in some way. Steve, knowing what he did, told him we needed a web site and it was born. Bryan does all the work, including posting information and keeping it up to date. He and his wife provide monthly financial support to the ministry as well.

Bryan, like Steve, is alive only by the grace of God and we feel their meeting was also God-directed. By the time they met, there were at least two hundred people in the embassy so the odds of them meeting, forming a friendship and his putting a public face on the ministry were high.

This is just one example of someone we didn’t know, whom God allowed us to meet to further His ministry in Haiti. We appreciate Bryan, what he does for the ministry and his and his wife’s willingness to help in giving.

Our thanks to everyone for your continued sacrifice in giving and your prayers for our friends in Haiti.

Serving HIM together,

Steve and Terry