At home
I have a posting prepared, detailing the last week of activities, but the pictures are not on this computer and will have to be transferred before I post. Too tired to do it tonight. We got in at midnight (last night/this morning), ending something like 33 hours of travel since we got up at Rachel's Friday morning. Both of us figure we slept about 4 hours on the Denver-London overnight flight. Then there was the 7-hour layover at Heathrow, a connecting flight through Porto in northern Portugal, and at the end of the day, we arrived about 25 minutes ahead of schedule.
A week ago I preached in Colorado Springs, today here in Madeira, next Sunday I'll preach in Portimão, on the south coast of mainland Portugal, where the Baptist Church there is celebrating her 25th anniversary. In fact, we have to leave Tuesday afternoon already! We've been discussing how much has to be taken out of the suitcases, and how much we should just leave in them for the next week of travel. Our visit here at home this time is shorter than most places we stayed in the States on this trip.
All is well at the church. There were several people who came forward to take over the music and the teaching and preaching ministries in our absence. How blessed it is to be dispensable!
News about Jackie
During our layover at Heathrow, Abbie called Jackie's cell phone to find out the latest news. Jackie answered from her hospital bed, saying that she had received the stents on Friday, the day before. She had called us on the 15th (just after my last posting) as we were traveling to Oklahoma after she had just come from the doctor's office. He told her there were two options: a quadruple bypass (6-8% chance of survival), or a balloon stent or stents (not sure of the details), for which he gave a 20% success rating. She asked about a third option: not doing either. Answer: "That is an option, but you could drop dead at any moment." The doctor gave an initial timetable of two weeks for the operation, but said he would try to get her in sooner. He did. It was 9 days later. Yesterday, she was able to answer the phone. We pray she will continue to improve and soon be home.
We are thankful to be home for a couple of nights. But how much more thankful will she be to be home!
A week ago I preached in Colorado Springs, today here in Madeira, next Sunday I'll preach in Portimão, on the south coast of mainland Portugal, where the Baptist Church there is celebrating her 25th anniversary. In fact, we have to leave Tuesday afternoon already! We've been discussing how much has to be taken out of the suitcases, and how much we should just leave in them for the next week of travel. Our visit here at home this time is shorter than most places we stayed in the States on this trip.
All is well at the church. There were several people who came forward to take over the music and the teaching and preaching ministries in our absence. How blessed it is to be dispensable!
News about Jackie
During our layover at Heathrow, Abbie called Jackie's cell phone to find out the latest news. Jackie answered from her hospital bed, saying that she had received the stents on Friday, the day before. She had called us on the 15th (just after my last posting) as we were traveling to Oklahoma after she had just come from the doctor's office. He told her there were two options: a quadruple bypass (6-8% chance of survival), or a balloon stent or stents (not sure of the details), for which he gave a 20% success rating. She asked about a third option: not doing either. Answer: "That is an option, but you could drop dead at any moment." The doctor gave an initial timetable of two weeks for the operation, but said he would try to get her in sooner. He did. It was 9 days later. Yesterday, she was able to answer the phone. We pray she will continue to improve and soon be home.
We are thankful to be home for a couple of nights. But how much more thankful will she be to be home!
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