My heart is so encouraged by the outpouring of love from this Church! The support coming in to Living Hope, the Bishops and the staff is overwhelming and inspiring. Thank you to each of you! Thank you for joining in prayer. Thank you for your emails. Thank you for showing us your love.
John had an appointment today and found out further information. He will be having surgery on Thursday April 20th. The doctors want to wait to allow his current biopsy incision to heal, which will lower the risk of infection. The section they will be removing on April 20th will be around six inches long and 3 inches deep. The Doctors plan on inserting a dye on the morning of the 20th to help them see which lymph nodes they will want to remove. They should have the results of the dye test by 11:30 that day and then the surgery will happen in the afternoon. The surgery will not only include a larger portion of his thigh but also as many lymph nodes as possible. During today's appointment, the doctors had x-rays taken of John's chest area. If cancer has entered his system, it would first be possibly seen in his chest area. They x-rayed his lungs and liver. Our prayer needs will be that the x-rays come back clean. The doctors told John and Michelle that it is a 10-20 percent chance that it entered his lymphatic system. Please continue to pray for the family and that the lymph nodes they remove and test on April 20th are negative. The results from the April 20th biopsy will be known on Monday April 24th.
What can you do?
Join us for 24 hour prayer for the Bishop Family. Visit our website at www.livinghopechurch.com , click on the banner at the top of the page and choose a time that you are able to pray for John, his family and our church at Easter. We need an army of prayer warriors right now. Will you join in?
"Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:19)
Prayer Warrior:
You stand in the gap - pray as you have never prayed before!
Form a "prayer platoon" of people who will fight alongside you
Rally the troops and keep them accountable on praying for their friends Father, I give You the glory. May You receive praise from generation to generation forever, because You are the One Who works among us so powerfully that You are able to do more than we can ask or even imagine.
- adapted from Ephesians 3:14-21
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