Prayer needed for Jennifer Leber's hospitalization (Uganda)

Well, all I can say is God works in mysterious ways. Just yesterday, I posted this on the mission work of Phil and Jennifer Leber (whom I had never heard of before I saw their website and learned of their work in Uganda), only today to have this arrive in my email:

Prayer Needed for Jennifer Leber's Hospitalization

Just got this today.

Jennifer is one of our missionaries and has been the "right hand" person for Mama Phoebe while she is in the states. Please hold Jennifer before our Lord for complete healing.

Phil and Jennifer Leber <leber@ugandamission.org> wrote:

Prayer for Jennifer

July, 2008

Jennifer was admitted to Nairobi Hospital early last week with a serious pulmonary infection. The initial x-ray was so clouded with infection that it hid the specific culprit for some days. With a follow-up x-ray, the doctor realized she has pneumonia in the lower left lobe and will in the hospital probably until Tuesday. She has been on intravenous antibiotics, steroids and oxygen, and only now does the combination seem to be working. She was receiving 80mg intravenous steroids and several intravenous antibiotics, as well as supplemental oxygen. Her white blood cell count was 23,000 when admitted (7,000 is normal).

Today, she is doing better. Her white blood cell count is down to 11,000 and her blood oxygen content is up to 90% from a low of 79% late last week. Please pray for her full recovery and for God to give the doctor wisdom in her treatment. Needless to say this has been a week of grief and emotional exhaustion.

So, please, prayers for Jennifer, Phil, her doctors, and those she has touched with her work in Uganda.

The damaged family

Excellent analysis by Captain Yips, including comments on the Diocese of San Diego (you'll have to go to his full article to see that) [boldface mine]:

. . . When a diocese is in the hands of those who are determined to pursue an agenda to reshape the church into some new, maybe somewhat monstrous, form, it’s the laity who suffer. Individually, the Christian in such a place is stunted and hindered, distracted with bizarre hermeneutics of the Bible, cut off from Anglican foundational teaching and from Christian truth in general. Parishes that survive in this acid bath are also isolated, obliged to interact with the bishop with fire proof gloves, and fearful of the result of the next clergy transition. The faithful diocese within TEC also exists precariously, knowing that the next bishop’s election will be difficult and under the 815 microscope. It’s a diseased and necrotic body, and ++Rowan’s irenic vision of the godly bishop in the midst of his godly clergy ministering to their flock, all interconnected via the See of Canterbury, is unrecognizable.

For individual Christians growing in a diocese covertly or overtly committed to the Revolution, it’s not unlike growing up in a damaged family with seriously broken parents. It’s fairly well known that addicted or violent or abusive or habitually unfaithful parents damage their kids, and that without healing that damage can be perpetuated for generations. That the sins of the fathers are visited on the children is not so much a statement of God’s wrathfulness as an accurate observation of what happens without a turn to-Godward. The children of such families are left without a foundational image of healthy family life, have damaged decision-making tools, and are apt to perpetuate the problems.

So it is with the flock of erring bishops. Over the years, Christian truth becomes warped out of recognition to the point, for example, that the Bishop of California can say that proceeding with public rites for SSBs honors the Primates’ request not to proceed with public rites for SSBs: utter nonsense viewed from outside, completely normal within the toxic family. . .

Read it all.

Prayer request for Bishop William Godfrey of Peru

Via email, a request for prayers for Rt. Rev. H. William Godfrey, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Perú.

He went in for a 2 hour surgery and it lasted 7 ½ hours. He has had 3 prior surgeries in the last 2 weeks.

He was very weakened as he hadn´t eaten in 2 weeks before this surgery. Please pray for his spirits which were very low, his family which is exhausted, and one of his daughter that has gone into labor in England where the whole family had expected to be together for the birth of this grandbaby.

We know in Him all things are possible, and we would appreciate your support in lifting Bill up for the healing touch of Our Savior, the Great Physician.