Im asking for prayer for my husband

Thursday, my husband had a wreck on his way to work.  He has had a cough for a few weeks and went to the doctor and it still hasn't gone away.  He was coughing and coming up to a T in the road and missed the stop sign.  He slammed on the brakes and held the steering wheel so tight that as he slammed into the ditch it bent the steering wheel and he stomped on the brakes so hard the light wouldn't go off once this was over.  Anyway, in the course of this slamming and banging through the ditch he managed to receive a compound fracture of  his L5 vertebrae.  This is an unusual vertebrae to break apparently.  Anyway, he went to the emergency room where they discovered the extent of his injury.  The next day we went to a spinal surgeon who will be doing a kyphoplasty surgery this coming Wednesday. He is in tremendous pain and can barely walk.  A friend loaned us a real nice walker without which I don't know how we would of made it to the doctors office.  Thank God for pain pills as he is in so much pain when they begin to wear off that it makes him cry.  Its very hard to see a big strong man cry from pain.

ky·pho·plas·ty

ˈkīfōˌplastē/

noun

1. the surgical filling of an injured or collapsed vertebra. This procedure restores original shape and configuration and relieves pain from spinal compression.

The procedure is very interesting and is supposed to relieve pain almost immediately.  He should be able to walk with out pain right away.  The healing time will be from the incisions which may be a little larger due to the fact that he is a large man.  We asked if there was a chance of the body rejecting the stuff they inject and were told that it will make that bone the strongest one in his body and he would not reject the composite stuff they inject.  That is good news.

When something like this happens it really makes you thankful for good health and a body that works.  

Missionary update

Bush Beat BlogF FROM "BUSH BUNNY BRENDA" DATE:  JANUARY 20, 2018 7 DAYS OF RAIN DOES NOT A HOPPY BUNNY MAKE Upon my return last Friday it was raining. By the time the sun appeared TODAY, 9+ inches of heavy rains had fallen in Balama in the last 7 days. Needless to say only essential work was done this week, and even that had to be done when the rains decreased to a light drizzle.   TODAY, the sun dawned bright for the first time since my return, and I am a VERY HOPPY BUNNY! Using the days drizzling rain to water their newly made bricks PASTOR JOAQUIM OVERSEES REBUILDING OF HIS RAIN DEMOLISHED HOME Being too muddy to even make bricks (our normal rainy season project), our team of brick layers made short work of getting the destroyed home’s “Pao-Peeky” (pow-peeky) walls built  in a matter of 2 days  (see photo).  The roofing has been delayed since Wednesday due to the cyclone-induced rains. Pastor Joaquim, gray shirt, directs builders of his new home Roof construction should begin this Monday if the weather man is correct for it is “supposed” to be dry until Thursday.  Only God knows, for the weather is very unpredictable.  But the Bush Bunny Construction Team arrives every morning, rain or not, ready for action. Morning devotions in the rain PASTOR FRED RECOVERING WELL WITH NEW CAST Pastor Fred is the member of the BBC Motorbike Team whose bike was hit by another motorbike on their way to give a Christmas Program in a nearby village on Christmas Eve.  Until he heals, Fred is staying in Balama with staff member, Pastor Armando, whose house has a concrete floor.  (Fred lives in a typical mud hut in the village of Rovuma which is deep in mud right now.) Pastor Fred enjoying a few rain free moments outside Trying to walk on crutches in deep mud is not the best environment for anyone with a plaster leg cast. The cast will “melt” if it gets wet. With this week’s horrendous rains, Fred slipped while hobbling to the outdoor bathroom on his crutches. Forced to put his casted foot into the mud to keep from falling, I found him last Saturday afternoon with a damp, muddy cast that had begun to melt on the bottom of the foot area. If you look closely at the photo you will see that WHITE GORILLA TAPE now covers the foot of the cast, making it more water resistant. (Texas Aggies know how to make repairs with what is available, and this seemed like the easiest solution.) My thanks to Dave Deboer of Michigan, who brought us several rolls of that tape from the USA.  Proves you can fix almost anything with DUCT TAPE! NOTE:  THE BBC MOTORBIKE TEAM will venture out tomorrow for the first time in 2018, provided it doesn’t rain tonight. Time to get God’s Word flowing through the villages once again. BLESSINGS FROM ALL OF US IN BALAMA. BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF

My favorite scripture

Romans 8:38-39King James Version (KJV)

³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.