Pastor Dave

Here are two of the updates that our pastor has sent out in the past couple of days. Basically he had cancer in his thyroid so they it out. And they also found cancer in some of his lymph nodes. It's pretty scary just thinking about it so I know that it's hard to understand when your going through it. The emails sound very upbeat but that is easy to do. It's the night time & 'down time' that the enemy tries to steal, kill & destroy. Please lift up our pastor & his family!!! Pastor Dave, Katrina & thier three girls...Kristen, Jaquelyn, & Kailyn.


Email updates:
To update you, Pastor Dave is still at Rowan, resting now. His surgery was anticipated to last 2+ hours, but the surgeon found "things I didn't like"... he did biopsy after biopsy and found papillary thyroid cancer... and after taking out both sides of his thyroid, he started taking out the lymph nodes on the right side... in a 7-hour surgery. The surgeon then sewed him up and said that the next step is to wait for the pathology report... followed in 6 weeks by a full-body radioactive iodine scan, to find out if there are any "hot spots".

We are relying on the fact that we are not in control... God is always in control... and we have nothing to fear or worry about.


Oh! The doctor did say that there is a 90%+ cure rate for this type of cancer! God is in control!

Church Prayer Warriors,

The doctor just came in and told us the latest news, pathology report, and calcium report. We are passing this along to you at this time, so you can know how to pray...

The pathology report came back that the papillary thyroid cancer is aggressive and is throughout the left side of his neck, in the lymph nodes. He is planning to treat this aggressively, as well, but the current path remains the same as before... follow-up visit with him next week, radioactive iodine body scan in 6 weeks, and then they will decide what the next course of action will be.

The calcium report came back... "normal" is 9... last night his was 8.9, so they drew more blood... this morning it was 8.4, so they drew more blood... this afternoon it was 8.3. The doctor isn't so concerned abut this that he's keeping him in the hospital... but he did say that he's not pleased that the numbers are going down.

HOW TO PRAY?

Strength in body
Peace in mind
Death to cancer
Increase in production of calcium

Nothing is impossible with GOD! ALL THINGS are possible THRU Him.


Ps PD is at home now. Thanks~T