Wednesday, September 12, 2012

W'apow mu e, 

 

Today is the last day of school for the week for the kids.  The church where the school is located is having a Bible Conference tomorrow and Friday.  The kids had a good day at school.  Danny still has no homework.  The other two both have some.  I thought that surely Danny would have some for the "long weekend."  

Joe worked on typing more Sunday School lessons this morning.  About 10:00, he got a call from a lady in the church.  She said that Brother Blay was very sick and that they needed him to come.  Joe got someone to go with him.  Brother Blay lives on top of a steep hill, and there is no road up to his house.  So, they had to carry him down to the car to take him to the hospital.  He had a stroke a while back and has steadily gone downhill since then.  Joe said that it looked like he may have suffered another stroke in the past few days.  Brother Blay was unresponsive.  They took him to the emergency room of the biggest hospital in the area.  A doctor looked at him and told Joe the medicines that were needed.  The next problem was that both dispensaries at the hospital were on strike.  They went to the first one, and they told them to go down all of the stairs to the other dispensary.  The other dispensary told them to go upstairs to the other one.  All of the workers were there, but they were refusing to sell anything due to the strike.  So, Joe drove all over town to get the list of things that the doctor prescribed – IVs, medicines, etc.  The whole time that Joe was gone, they left Brother Blay sitting in a makeshift wheelchair.  The wheelchair was a cracked plastic chair bolted to a wheelchair frame.  After Joe got back, they admitted him.  Some of Brother Blay's family came to stay with him.  Joe talked to his son this evening, and they had just finished going all around town to find another round of medicines.  Brother Blay is unresponsive, and nothing seems to be helping.  Brother Blay is saved and was a faithful church member before the stroke.  Please pray that we can be a witness to his family through all of this.  

The master bedroom deep cleaning was my project this morning.  This afternoon, I was busy in the kitchen.  I had some vegetables that needed to be used up.  So, I made a cucumber salad, a potato salad, and glazed carrots to go along with a meatloaf.

We ate supper early since Joe hadn't eaten lunch.  Then, everyone was ready to go to church an hour early.  The kids played outside for a while.  Then, we headed to church.

Tonight was the first time in a long time that we have had power at the church on a Wednesday night.  With load shedding every other night, this week we should have power on Sunday night too.

We had ten in attendance this evening.  We had a good service.  We are going through the book of Hebrews on Wednesday nights.  Danny was sitting next to me and kept trying to ask questions about what Daddy was saying.  I told him to just listen.  Joe was preaching out of Hebrews 1:4 tonight.  When he was talking about the angels, he said that no one names their child Lucifer.  Danny wanted to know why.  I told him that Lucifer was kicked out of heaven and that he was the devil.  Danny said, "They kicked him out with their feet?"  He takes everything literally!  

 

Nantsew yie!

 

Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie