Hi everybody,

There’s nothing worse than praying for somebody and having no idea what’s working, so I wanted to give you a quick update, to let you know what’s happening and give you kudos for a great job on your prayers as I am seeing improvements on my arms. I had my last surgery on Monday to recover from a back wound that was allowed in the first hospital. This has created the need for me to lay flat for the next 5 to 6 weeks… Yeah, kind of tired of looking at the ceiling vent above me. This may be a curse to many, but it has allowed me to get five additional weeks of physical therapy and the great news is that there are improvements every day. I still don’t have the finger dexterity I would need to function well, so if you think maybe we should be done with praying, the answer is no, still need a lot of help and a lot of prayers for the fingers. On the legs they say there’s a 100 to 1 chance that I’ll ever walk. But once again, if the one chance means God and Christ stepping in, then those odds look pretty good to me. From a pain standpoint, I’m really not encountering any, so right now I’m sitting back on cushions being fed three times a day with grapes. So, in some regards, I’m not too far off from a sultan in the Ottoman Empire. But I think they had better views. Thank you all truly for your prayers and the answer is yes. I absolutely do need them to continue. The next few weeks will tell me a lot about the quality of life I’ll come to live with, but so far I’m seeing your prayers and God’s work in action, so thank you. Please keep it up.

David Schemenauer

From Charla Shallenberger

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Philip Aust

United Church of God, Pastor

Atlanta & Buford, Georgia