New Life Church Weekly Update

A Word from Worship

Greetings New Life Church family and friends,

Happy Holiday week! When you read this I hope you and your loved ones are continuing to celebrate not only the 4th of July but a long weekend reaching out to loved ones. Don and I are expecting fun time with our family - including our three greatest grand babies. Family has always been important to me, and while I miss my extended family back home in the Midwest, we are truly blessed to have our adult children, grandchildren and their growing families right here close by. In spite of their busy lives, they have been here with and for us since Don got sick. God has shown us repeatedly that we are also blessed with our loving church family. I can't mention often enough how your meals, offers of rides and other help, cards and messages of hope have lifted me up at moments of despair and worry. And prayers!! Every week we hear from someone who tells us that they are praying and they have asked others to pray for us. And, I am filled with hope to tell you that all those prayers are working!  Those of you who are on my prayer team have already heard this news but I want to share with all of you. I have been apprehensive since Don had finished all of the testing needed and then the fall happened with more scans etc. Since the day he was admitted to ER and we got the news of cancer, I was devastated, needless to say, primarily due to the way it was delivered to us by a beautiful young nurse. She came in the room and said "I looked at your scans and it's the worst thing I've ever seen. There are tumors on several organs which are 90% cancer and I doubt they'll do anything for them." That stuck in my heart the past few weeks so my prayer has been "please Lord, give me one piece of hopeful news when we meet with the doctor." Dr. Browne walked in the room and said "we have a plan" and I immediately felt God's presence in the room with us. Tests showed a primary lesion on Don's colon and one tumor in his liver - a much more hopeful result. The blessings continued as she described the chemo plan for Don. She explained that research has shown that people of Don's age have the same results by receiving doses in half the amount as with full dosage. This helps eliminate side effects.  He will receive cycles of 14 days of oral pills and then every 3 weeks will have one IV treatment. We all agreed that this is a very doable plan and we have been praying thanks and praises since. We will ask for continued prayers for the treatment medications to be effective and with little or no complications.  We continue to be blessed. Don is praying to feel better soon so he can return to serving the Lord and resuming his life prior to diagnosis.

I will continue to share updates with you. We have been in worship the past couple weeks and have been blessed to see some of you. I hope to be on campus more often as things get more settled. Please continue to send me any prayer requests and I will send them to to the prayer warriors.  Please pray for any who are suffering. Many people are in need of prayer. I'd like to share scripture that I turn to at times that feel overwhelming to me. "Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying." Romans 12:12

I'm praying for you!

Rosie Young

Worship Coordinator

rosie@newlifeforall.church