Category: News (Page 65 of 100)

Friends of Haiti:

Terry’s progress is going really well. One thing — she can’t take the follow up medicine that helps prevent it from coming back. In some people, her being one of them, it causes a very bad and itchy rash….all over her body. Her next round of blood testing is the 23rd of this month and hopefully between now and then they will come up with a solution. So let’s all pray she is a person who doesn’t need that particular medicine.

With everything else going on we didn’t mention that March marked the twentieth anniversary of the ministry. It really was a very fast twenty years and years we wouldn’t take back for anything, because to us it has been nothing but a blessing. It goes without saying all of you have been a part of that blessing. Who knows how many people you have helped feed or provide medicine for during that time…the number of kids who have learned how to read and write?

Without Terry’s blessing (she doesn’t like the picture) I have included one that was taken of us Thanksgiving 1995  when we were still working on the island of La Gonave, just off the coast of Haiti and her first trip there. You may know it was not a good trip for her because of all the political problems going on at that time; missing our flight home; and not knowing where to go that night. But God provided for that just as He has for all the needs since.

It has been a very good twenty years, because of you, and because we know it is what we are supposed to be doing. It has been your unselfish giving that has made everything done possible.

As always thank you for praying for Terry and helping our friends in Haiti.

Steve and Terry

P.S. Since I don’t have to be with Terry 24 hours a day now, by the time you read this I will be back in Haiti for the first trip back since she was diagnosed. It will be good to see everyone again.

Friends of Haiti:

Good news — very, very good news! All of the bone marrow test results came back negative of cancer. Going into this, we were told not to be disappointed if some were there at the finish, but there are none. Of course Terry has a long way to go but she has most of her strength back, very little pain and feels good. In the past, we have thanked you for many things but none more important than the prayers you have offered for her recovery. From Missouri and several other states to Haiti and Europe to West Africa where we know missionaries; prayers from all over the world being offered for her recovery. To us, that is a very powerful thought and the fact there are no cells at all prove prayer really does change things. Good doctors and good medicine, yes but the prayer of many is just as powerful.

We want to use the newsletter this month to thank all of you who have done so many things to help us over the past several months. People and churches from several areas have sent cards telling Terry they are praying for her; people bought gift cards for us to use when staying in St. Louis, they gave money, some quite a lot. Our church gave more than one time to help offset our expenses and we just don’t know what we would have done without your help.

When this began and we were first told, some of the first words she said were “God already knew this”. When we were deciding where we would stay, there were three or four places we had to choose from that work with the hospital. She wondered how we would pay for it. I said if we believe God knew this was going to happen, we have to believe He will help us take care of this as well. To say the very least, faith was rewarded. We know sometimes things like this don’t work out the way a person wants them to and we don’t know what the future holds, but this time faith was rewarded.

Thank you to each of you for every single prayer, every single thing you have done to make this journey easier than it could have been. We think you have been a much bigger help and blessing to us than you may ever know.

We love you all,

Steve and Terry