CoD V.2.5- A Great Need for Prayer
Hey guys, if you could pass this on, we could certainly do with your prayer. You may remember Keith and Tammy, two of my team members? Well, a few months ago we went to visit this other TIMO team, and when we got back Keith came down with some kind of virus - he felt feverish and battled a head-ache, his back hurt all the time, and his muscles hurt on-and-off as well. He was down for some three days, and then he felt better.
His wife Tammy caught the virus off of him though. Except she never got better- this happened several months ago, and ever since then she's been battling a near constant back-ache, head-aches, stomach-aches, muscle pain and fatigue, etc, with no end in sight and no medicine seeming to help.
Keith and Tammy at a team birthday party gazing lovingly at something, possibly one of their boys.
Well, K and T and their boys headed out to Nairobi a few weeks ago to see some specialists, and after a long and exhausting series of tests it turns out Tammy has a lot of things she's battling. She's struggled with fibro-myalgia before, and this virus seems to have triggered it again, along with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She's also had scabies all this while (a little parasite that makes your skin all itchy), and h.pylori bacteria in her stomach, which has been upsetting it all the more. So she's been struggling with all this, in near-constant pain, for several months now. They tried treating some of it in Nairobi, but for the most part, to no avail.
So with heavy hearts they've decided that the better course for their family at this time is to return to Colorado, where they hope that with some rest and a reprieve from the pressures of TIMO and life in rural Africa, Tammy will begin to heal. This would certainly be the best decision for these circumstances.
But I'm convicted and convinced that the God I worship is not bound by circumstances. We have all been praying for Tammy's healing, and I would ask you to join with us in praying as well - that God would do such an unbelieveable work in healing Tammy completely of what doctors have given up on, that it would be obvious to everyone here - all her friends and neighbours who're currently saying goodbye - that this Jesus whom the foreigners worship is for real.
I don't think I've written here about Dogo yet, but he's a guy from the neighbouring village who got a wound infected, had a bunch of skin and flesh rot and die, and ended up with a huge hole the size of a man's hand in his leg. The health-centre here couldn't do anything for him, and they're usually out of medicines anyways, so he'd been going to Tim to get his wound cleaned out and hopefully get rid of the painful infection. Tim gave him medicines for the infection and for the pain, and faithfuly cleaned the wound (which smelled awful!), but other than that there wasn't much else he could do. Two visiting American doctors (a plastic surgeon and a general practitioner, friends of Tim's) looked at the wound and said he needed a skin graft, without which only a miracle would cause this wound to close. Well, Tim continued cleaning it every day and praying in Jesus' name for the wound to heal (he could get half a cue-tip inside the hole at one point), for a while now, and after several months, the wound is closed and except for a tiny scab, healed. I'll get some before-and-after pics from Tim and put them on here soon, and hopefully it won't gross anyone out. Dogo's been going around telling everyone that Jesus healed his leg, and starts Bible narrations with Tim this week.
God is able, and I ask again that you join with us in praying earnestly for Tammy's healing.
On a lighter note, while K and T were in Nairobi, the rest of the team went to AIM's Tanzania area conference, which was an amazing, challenging time. We got to meet lots of other missionaries and see their ministries, heard some great teaching from 1 Corinthians, and generally got to know some amazing people.
As part of a fun-night skit, Tim my teamleader and I, along with Tim's brother Dan, got to play bridesmaids at a traditional African wedding. Here's a pics of us dancing our joy away at the union of the happy couple.
Interestingly, the other two guys are wearing wigs.
A most handsome bridesmaid i would say, disturbingly attractive?
His wife Tammy caught the virus off of him though. Except she never got better- this happened several months ago, and ever since then she's been battling a near constant back-ache, head-aches, stomach-aches, muscle pain and fatigue, etc, with no end in sight and no medicine seeming to help.
Keith and Tammy at a team birthday party gazing lovingly at something, possibly one of their boys.Well, K and T and their boys headed out to Nairobi a few weeks ago to see some specialists, and after a long and exhausting series of tests it turns out Tammy has a lot of things she's battling. She's struggled with fibro-myalgia before, and this virus seems to have triggered it again, along with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She's also had scabies all this while (a little parasite that makes your skin all itchy), and h.pylori bacteria in her stomach, which has been upsetting it all the more. So she's been struggling with all this, in near-constant pain, for several months now. They tried treating some of it in Nairobi, but for the most part, to no avail.
So with heavy hearts they've decided that the better course for their family at this time is to return to Colorado, where they hope that with some rest and a reprieve from the pressures of TIMO and life in rural Africa, Tammy will begin to heal. This would certainly be the best decision for these circumstances.
But I'm convicted and convinced that the God I worship is not bound by circumstances. We have all been praying for Tammy's healing, and I would ask you to join with us in praying as well - that God would do such an unbelieveable work in healing Tammy completely of what doctors have given up on, that it would be obvious to everyone here - all her friends and neighbours who're currently saying goodbye - that this Jesus whom the foreigners worship is for real.
I don't think I've written here about Dogo yet, but he's a guy from the neighbouring village who got a wound infected, had a bunch of skin and flesh rot and die, and ended up with a huge hole the size of a man's hand in his leg. The health-centre here couldn't do anything for him, and they're usually out of medicines anyways, so he'd been going to Tim to get his wound cleaned out and hopefully get rid of the painful infection. Tim gave him medicines for the infection and for the pain, and faithfuly cleaned the wound (which smelled awful!), but other than that there wasn't much else he could do. Two visiting American doctors (a plastic surgeon and a general practitioner, friends of Tim's) looked at the wound and said he needed a skin graft, without which only a miracle would cause this wound to close. Well, Tim continued cleaning it every day and praying in Jesus' name for the wound to heal (he could get half a cue-tip inside the hole at one point), for a while now, and after several months, the wound is closed and except for a tiny scab, healed. I'll get some before-and-after pics from Tim and put them on here soon, and hopefully it won't gross anyone out. Dogo's been going around telling everyone that Jesus healed his leg, and starts Bible narrations with Tim this week.
God is able, and I ask again that you join with us in praying earnestly for Tammy's healing.
On a lighter note, while K and T were in Nairobi, the rest of the team went to AIM's Tanzania area conference, which was an amazing, challenging time. We got to meet lots of other missionaries and see their ministries, heard some great teaching from 1 Corinthians, and generally got to know some amazing people.
As part of a fun-night skit, Tim my teamleader and I, along with Tim's brother Dan, got to play bridesmaids at a traditional African wedding. Here's a pics of us dancing our joy away at the union of the happy couple.
Interestingly, the other two guys are wearing wigs.
A most handsome bridesmaid i would say, disturbingly attractive?
posted by dan at 11/10/2008 10:34:00 a.m.
2 Comments:
No. No. NO! I'm going to have to go burn out my eyes now.
It's been a year since you posted. What's happening with TIMO?
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