Please keep Betty Naylor and the Harris family in your prayers. Betty is hospitalized with lung cancer in Albany. She is Kay Harris’ mother and Jay Harris’ mother-in-law. Jay is the Spiritual Director on the upcoming men’s walk.
An update will be posted when more information is available.
Jane Latner
CGWTE #56
Table of Sarah
Hello Christian Brothers and Sisters, pls. lift up the Bagwell family of the Atlanta area in LOVE and prayer. Caroline Bagwell a 19 yr. old rising Sophomore @ Georgia College and State University, lost her life to a drunk driver on early Sunday morning the 15th. Caroline was a wonderful blessing to her DZ sorority sisters and loved our Lord Jesus Christ w/ all of her heart. Lord, we pray for her hurting family and sisterhood and hope they can grieve properly, understanding God’s love and comfort will win out over all!
Praise you Jesus for Caroline’s life - it was a life of love, laughs and wonderful caring.
De Colores,
Joe Taylor Jr.
Bwk Ga
All,
Last week we posted a request for the Chrysalis prayer vigil; however, the sign-up sheet wasn’t added until later in the week. Please prayfully consider signing up for the vigil which begins this Thursday. You can link directly to the sign-up sheet here - http://www.3dayol.org/Vigil/GetVigil.phtml?pvid=2677&commid=61.
De Colores,
Golden Isles Emmaus Web Servant
Hardy volunteers are invited to join again in Tornado Disaster Relief efforts in Lizzela, GA near Macon this Saturday, June 21 where many families await help. Enjoy the fellowship of our work team! Along the way enjoy the vistas of Interstate 16 while sipping on a Hardee’s coffee in Savanah! We provide the gas! Relax in the comfort of our appointed church van! We’re departing College Place UMC, Brunswick at 5:30 am and returning by 8:30pm. Our United Methodist Council on Relief (UMCOR) chefs will provide lunch and unlimited quantities of a cold but popular refreshment! Chain saws are desperately needed. If you cannot travel, but would love to loan a dependable chainsaw to the team; or volunteer for the day please call 912-996-3468 or 912-265-0121.
Blessings!
Billy Zeh
GIWTE #5, Table of Peter
Local & Connectional Missions
College Place UMC
We are sending this email to our family, friends and church family. I’d like to ask you to pray for me as I go in for another knee surgery on Tuesday AM (06-10).
Please pray for Godly wisdom, direction and favor for my doctor and all his staff. Also, please pray for a quick recovery.
Thank you very much. May God bless you!
Brad Headley
GIWTE #5
Table of Mark
Please pass this on to all the community members; the prayer vigil for the upcoming girl’s Chrysalis flight can be found here - http://www.3dayol.org/Vigil/GetComm.phtml.
His Servant
Mike Koreckis
CGWTE #57
Chrysalis Board Member
The next gathering will be held at First Baptist Church Kingsland on July 11th at 7pm. The phone number for the church is 912-729-5521 and the address is 295 E. Chester ST Kingsland GA. 31548. The church email address is mail@kingslandfbc.org. You can also contact John and Vicki McDonald at 912-729-2020 or email bakerman@tds.net.
If you are interested in giving a 4th Day Talk, please contact John or Vicki McDonald.
Other gathering dates are:
Please give us a call if you can help or have questions.
DeColores,
John and Vicki McDonald
Gathering Coordinators
Please pray for healing of Wesley Ness, 35, of Jarrell, TX near Austin. He is the nephew of CPUMC members Dan & Reba Fischer. He was born with a heart defect and has custody of his two children. At this point his heart is failing. He is awaiting a decision on whether he will be place on a heart transplant list and possible a liver transplant as well.
Billy Zeh
GIWTE #5, Table of Peter
The Chrysalis Board of Directors is in need of new members. I spoke briefly at the pio party regarding the need. We need a few people from the golden isles/camden county/blackshear area to serve a three year term. You do not have to have experience, we will train you. We meet once a month, our next meeting is June 14 at Tattnall Campground and we will help the girls team prepare for their flight and have the meeting during lunch. The Chrysalis movement in this area is supported by the three communities, Golden Isles, Coastal and Dayspring. Our meetings are usually held in Richmond Hill or Savannah. If there is interest, we can car pool together with the rising fuel costs. I would really like to see this area grow for Chrysalis, not only adult participation but also youth attending as well. Speaking of youth, if you know of a youth that has been on a Chrysalis flight, and still in high school, we are also in need of youth members on the board. They have a voice just like the adults and we cherish their comments and suggestions.
If you are interested, please call or e-mail me and we can talk further.
Fly With Christ,
Mike Koreckis
CGWTE #57, table of Paul
912-577-6629 cell
Watching God Perform a Miracle
To our wonderful family, friends and church family, praise God Almighty and our Lord Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit who can do all things!!
As you all know we have struggled for many years watching and helping sweet Julia struggle against this curse of “autism” (she’s 10 now). My favorite Bible verse is Romans 8:28 “For God uses all things for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose”. This has brought us a continuing measure of comfort through this trial as we knew that God was maturing the three of us (Peggy, Hannah & I) in Christ and doing much in others lives through Julia’s life.
We and many of you have prayed persistently for Julia for many years much like the persistent widow in Luke 18. We are now in the process of watching God do a miracle in our lives and we thank God and you all each one for each prayer that you have petitioned on behalf of Julia and our family. God bless you!!
On Thursday 05-29-08 Julia and Peggy met with Dr. Kendal Stewart and his team in Austin, TX. Julia took a battery of high-tech tests. Dr. Stewart met with us (I participated via conference call) and he explained Julia’s condition. His assessment and explanation were very logical and made total sense although we may not articulate them as well as Dr. Stewart. We will briefly explain this as best we recall and understand.
Julia has a group of symptoms categorized by many as “autism” but is more accurately described as a sensory integration disorder. However, these symptoms are caused by an underlying problem. The doctor believes that her condition may be caused by viruses attaching to and inflaming the nerves in the vestibular region of her inner ears/brain (potentially from childhood vaccines like chicken pox, rubella, etc.). It could also be fungal/bacterial, heavy metals or related to hormone imbalances.
The analogy that he used was that Julia’s brain was like a good working computer with faulty software. He said that he thinks the ears don’t communicate with each other and the brain properly causing people with her symptoms not to process information properly. He said that he thinks the broad spectrum of autistic symptom presentations in people including profoundly autistic, high functioning autistic, Aspergers, ADD, ADHD, and dyslexia and others may be an interruption of the vestibular system at various stages of development. He said he thinks Julia’s IQ is approx. 120 but due to this condition the input from the world around her is faulty. As examples he said that many people with these symptoms (including Julia) can’t smoothly track moving objects visually, have increased peripheral vision input causing distraction in school and increased levels of audio perception (this and the fact that I’m a horrible singer may be why Julia tells me to stop singing….she also points and says, “You’re bad and you’ll always be bad!”.…a line from the Lilo & Stitch movie…LOL). Dr. Stewart told Peggy, to Julia it’s like the worst case of PMS that you could ever imagine where you can’t focus well and are irritable, but it happens every day! What’s worse is that these sensory perceptions vary dramatically day to day. Thus, your “normal” baseline of sensory inputs (your “reality”) yesterday is not your “normal” today. Just imagine how extremely difficult and frustrating it must be for Julia to try to learn. Additionally, her balance is not over her centerline of her body (it’s skewed right). There were many other aspects of Julia’s behavior/life and the tests that confirm this diagnosis, but to keep this semi-brief we won’t go there now.
He said that this condition is very treatable with anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-inflammatory oral medications. He said that the next challenge is to determine why Julia is susceptible to these viruses etc. and correct that problem for long term recovery and development. Julia will soon have a battery of blood tests checking for numerous possible issues (allergies, genetics, hormone levels, etc. and a test for heavy metals. When these tests are complete, then we’ll address any other issues as they arise with other meds, hormones, diet, supplements, etc.
The bottom line is that Dr. Stewart told us with a great deal of confidence that “Julia has a 90% probability of growing up to be completely normal”. As he said, “I see her growing up to get married, having children and all of the things that everyone else does!” (I truly can’t tell you how wonderful and blessed those words are to us all).
Dr. Stewart advises that once we get her vestibular system squared away (this should take several months), then Julia’s development can catch up with other kids. He says that she could catch up a years’ worth of development delay in approx. four months. He said we should see improvements in her coordination first, then speech and other skills will improve later.
We are grateful beyond measure to God for giving the doctor the wisdom and capability to understand and treat this condition and leading us to him.
However, we still need your help!! Please continue to pray specifically for the following:
Thank you all for your prayers and love for us. May God bless you all!
Brad, Peggy, Hannah & Julia
P.S. I also want to take this opportunity to extol the wonderful example of “Christ like” love and service that my wonderful wife Peggy displays every single day to Julia and all of us. It’s been amazing to watch how she handles Julia and her “autism”. She has great treasure stored up in heaven. We all love her very much for who she is!
Brad Headley
GIWTE #5 Table of Mark