Prayer for Clinton Calendar

Great news from Clinton and Tracy Berends!

Dear friends,

As you are aware, Clinton Berends heard last September that his melanoma had metastasised and his oncologist had remarked that Clinton may have until Christmas to live. There were tumours on his lungs and liver, and the prognosis was very grave.

We wanted to write and let you know some glorious news - Clinton had some scans last week to assess the whole situation with his health.

This morning Clinton and Tracy gave us the great news that the tumours are no longer there and that Clinton is cancer free. There is still one area that gives an indistinct result, but there tests indicate that there is no cancer present.

Great is your faithfulness, O God our Father!

What a celebration we had with God's people this morning!

Clinton and Tracy will write to you in due course, but we just wanted to let you know this glorious news God has given us! He deserves all glory, honour and praise!

To close this morning we prayed with thanksgiving, we read Ps 116, we sang Great is your faithfulness, and we cried wonderful tears of joy!

Hallelujah, Lord Jesus!

David Groenenboom - Sent 16 March 2008

Where to from here?

Hi Friends,

Wow... to be honest we are a little blown away at the moment. God's grace to us has extended to where we have prayed, but beyond where we dared to always hope. Its a lot to take in all at once, we are in a bit of a daze, but we are extremely thankful.

Yesterday we spent a long time with our naturopath, Margaret Foley. She too was blown away by the results. She said she had been quietly confident that the tumors had shrunk, but not to this point.

We talked a lot about where we go from here. She has suggested that we continue on, slightly less intense, but almost the same, for another 3 months. She is concerned that we give it a little longer for the lymph node to reduce and the last 'shadow' to disappear. This means 6 juices a day, instead of 10, an injection every days, rather than every day, and things like that. Following the 3 months I will go onto a much easier maintenance program, for a long time.

Having come through what we have, and seeing the power of God at work, it doesn't seem like much to continue. But having said that, it will be impossible to do without your continued support, love and, most importantly, prayers. We continue to look to God to bring about complete health, as he has begun to do. It will mean the continuation of a juicing roster, and grass growing, and reduced working hours for the short term future.

We are extremely thankful for your support so far and are thankful for your commitments to ongoing support in the future.

We also are thankful that God has used, and continues to use, these circumstances for his glory and to make known the greatness of Jesus. May he continue to do that as we together point to Him.

Thanks again

Clinton, Tracy, Tane, Ky and Kezia - Sent 18 March 2008

The Prayer calendar is now closed. We thank you dearly for keeping Clinton in your prayers. Please continue to pray for him in the future and for the Church.