Cancer and funerals........

Ronnie and Aling.......
they really need our prayers at the moment
as they battle Aling’s bowel cancer.

Today is the third day of Aling’s chemo treatment,
they are away from their family,
out in the city,
facing the pain and the strangeness of the hospital
amongst mostly strangers.

Life feels so foreign and so uncertain to them at the moment.
They are sorely missed here in Lapoc. They play a huge role in the church in
pastoral care and leadership.

Paul went out to the city today, to visit them and to make sure they are doing okay.

And funerals.......

This is the scene we visited 12 evenings ago, as we went to grieve

with a family from the church here whose young adult son had just been brutally murdered

along with his friend.

Sadly, this scene has been repeated just yesterday - another two men were murdered

early yesterday morning during a gathering to bury a family member who had died

of old age. They had been drinking, old hostilities were stirred up, knives

and guns were brought out and now there are two more to bury.

These deaths directly affect families here in the church who are relatives and family

of those who have been killed, so there is much grieving here  

and there are funerals and loss and grim finality to deal with,

which is especially hard considering the violence of these deaths.

So please pray for our church family here.

Pray that these tragedies will spur us on in even more fervour in

the spreading of the Gospel.