Prayer Board! (please come if you need prayers)

[dancer]

Kaz - praying for you and your family. Especially your dad.

[Jenna]

So much for a smooth and unevenful weekend!!!!!!!! Well unfortunately we woke up this morning to find the Honda missing. We have reported it to the police and insurance. Now looking for a small commuter car for DH for around $1500. This is frustrating and was not needed especially right now!!! Please pray we find another. Being down to one car with 5 kids, 2 of them LITTLE ones really hurts!

[luv1another]

hey jenna, how are things? did you get a car yet? I prayed when you first posted this but havnt really been on much since

[dancer]

Jenna - praying God helped you find the right car for hubby to commute.

I have a prayer request. I don't want to go into great details, but I'm praying about leaving the job I'm at. Of course, I would need another one first, so I am praying about that specifically.

Also, our family needs prayer in general.

Thanks.

[Dred]

You're on the list for those items.

I hope and pray God will give you the direction you need.

[Jenna]

The car was returned and in mostly ok condition, my dear hubby is driving it back and forth to work. Hugs~

[dancer]

Need prayers urgently. A dancer/mentor/teacher friend of mine needs prayer today. His wife was killed in a car accident yesterday. He has 8 children. His name is Jeff Lewis. He was in Israel ministering in dance and is now urgently trying to get home to his children.

Apparently, his wife was at the dentist and asked the 17 yr old to move the van closer because it was raining. The 12 yr old went with him and ended up in the driver seat and hit the accelerator instead of hte brake and ran into the dental office building, killing his mom and injuring 2 other workers. Please pray for their family. This is devastating. I'm in shock.

www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou061010_ac_carintooffice.25cc54c5.html

Thanks for your prayers.

[Dred]

How horrible. This will certainly be in my prayers.

[dgan]

Prayers for my wife and I on our business/employment decisions. We feel a lack of direction we haven't felt since we were newlyweds, 8 years ago. (Senior members - details are in Faerie Fire.)

I may be showing up on here even more infrequently the next couple months...please don't take it personal. Just unbelievably busy. Thanks!

[Dred]

You'll both be in my prayers.

Take care of things on your end and don't worry, we'll still be here when you've got more time.

Best wishes.

[luv1another]

will pray for both of your requests dancer and dgan

[twyrch]

From: Tim Ward
To: [e-mail]
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: Thanks for your prayers for Malorie and us

Dear friends and family,

We thank you all very much for your prayers and concern for Malorie and our family. I’m going to attempt to give you an update as best as possible by e-mail.

On Sunday night, October 22, at about 8:45 p.m., Malorie was riding with my sister, Wendy, near Royal Lake, Illinois (east of Greenville) when their vehicle struck a horse wandering on the highway. The horse’s head smashed through the windshield striking Malorie in the face and head. Malorie was life-flighted to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

Malorie’s right frontal area of her skull was crushed inward causing a large gaping wound in her forehead (over sixty internal and external stitches to close) and crushing her upper sinus and causing contusions to the brain with air in the brain area as well (believed to be from the crushed sinus). Her right eye socket bone was badly broken and the bone canal that the optic nerve travels through was shattered as well (the eye surgeons have told us that bone fragments are pressing on the optic nerve and may have penetrated it). She currently has no sight in the right eye and they have stated that they will not even attempt to repair the optic nerve because it is impossible to repair; but we want a miracle.

The bones in the right side of her face were also broken severely with the sinuses below her eyes being broken as well. This may also affect her right ear. They were not able to do immediate surgery because there was too much swelling to the brain and other areas. So we have been in a wait and see mode. But, we praise God that Malorie lived through this and that her vital signs remain good. And though they are keeping her in a cervical collar, there was no immediate paralysis and no apparent injury to spinal column. As time passes, she gains more ability to speak and think clearly. She also is sensing more pain, which they tell us will only increase so pray for that.

There have many teams of neurosurgical, ear-nose-and throat, and eye surgeons from Barnes-Jewish Hospital and at least two university hospitals consulting on the case to determine what to do. We praise God that Malorie lived through this accident. We also praise God that the neurosurgeons believe that the trauma to the brain will only result in temporary personality changes, no long-term cognitive or motor damage. The only severe physical long-term loss will be the sight of her right eye (again we want a miracle) and scarring.

We are supposed to find out tomorrow (Wednesday) when they will be able to perform surgery, but most likely sometime next week. They will coordinate teams of surgeons from at least three specialties to perform all of the reconstruction surgery of skull, eye socket, facial bones and sinus areas to be done in one long day of surgery. The severity of the surgeries will pose some threat to life, yet these are some of the best surgeons around; and God is still the Great Physician.

The care and concern from the moment of the accident from people stopping to help to the emergency personnel to the hospital and surgeons has been absolutely top-rate and God-sent.

Post-surgery recovery and therapy will be a minimum of six to eight weeks before she will be able to return to classes in her senior year at Greenville College. She is very worried about that. She has also been looking forward to going on a three-week trip to Israel in January. We would like a miracle for her to be well enough to take that trip because she has had tremendous spiritual growth lately and we believe that God could really use that experience to overwhelm her with His love (I hope that doesn’t sound selfish).

She has been informed of the damage, the long road of surgery and recovery, and the probable permanent loss of sight and she seems to understand, though we’re not sure if it has sunk in yet. We’re trying to prepare her for the fact that her graduation will simply be delayed. And if she can’t go to Israel in January, we are trying to encourage her with the guarded promise that maybe our whole family can go there together someday.

Malorie is taking this very well, and seems to be more concerned about how the rest of us are taking it: her aunt Wendy, Nancy and me, her sister Bethany and her boyfriend Steven.

In another prayer request, while my sister Wendy did not receive any physical injuries, she is suffering emotionally with the feeling she caused Malorie’s injuries. Everyone has been reassuring her that there is nothing she could have done more than she did, but she is hurting terribly. So please pray for healing for my sister, Wendy Powell.

Sorry that this letter is so long, but we wanted to keep you all informed of the progress and to thank you all for your prayer and ask for continuation of the same. We are told that the days and weeks ahead will be harder for Malorie and for us with many ups and downs. How could anyone go through all of this without the love of Jesus and of the Body of Christ? That alone gives us more desire to shepherd more into the Kingdom to experience the love of Christ and family.

We love you all,
Tim and Nancy Ward

[dgan]

Friends - I really need you to pray for my parents. Also, for myself and my wife, but the real need is for my parents and my siblings still living there. The situation is extremely difficult and I really have no idea what is going to happen.

And please give thanks for your family. If you have a loving family, you don't know how blessed you are.

[luv1another]

will pray..
guys a online friend of mine died suddenly yesterday he was 43 and was married but without kids unfortuneately he was atheist. This is someone who rang me a week ago after reading my depression thread because he was worried about me. His wife could use our prayers I am sure and the people from the board I post on that are grieving

[Jenna]

Update - Jo has continued to make FALSE allegations against my husband, and I have lost visitation with her until the investigation is finalized. This news I got yesterday, when I was supposed to go get her. Talk about feeling like I had been punched in the gut. I am hoping and praying that the truth and who is really doing these things to her comes out! I know for a fact that he has never done the things she has said, because he is never alone with her and makes sure he is not here or busy when she is here, because of her problem with lying. The other kids even complain when she is here because they don't get time with him due to the way he is dealing with this. He tells me he is sorry and that he doesn't want to hurt me, due to his reluctance to deal with her, but that he has to protect himself and his family. I don't know what to do anymore and all I can do is sit back and wait. I know the lord has her in his hands, but this feels like an attack to me, one of a spiritual nature. Please pray for us all, we could really use it right now. This Christmas is just not going to be the same with out my girl.