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Update December 24, 2008
Dear Friends and Family,
We want to wish everyone a blessed Christmas season.
May each of us seek to honor and glorify our Savior
as we celebrate His birth and as we look forward to
a new year of blessings and challenges.
I want to thank each of you for praying for my Dad’s
recuperation from Guillain Barré Syndrome. I just
got back from Perú on Sunday afternoon from bringing
him back to the USA. I left for Perú on the 17th and
arrived in Lima on the 18th. Ken Loveall, our fellow
missionary in the mountains also arrived in Lima by
bus that same afternoon. We had a meeting on the
19th to discuss several aspects of the ministry in
the Cuzco region of Perú, with the participation of
my Dad and Bruce Maddux, a new missionary arrival in
Perú who will be working primarily with the radio
ministry in Urubamba. He and his family are
currently in Lima studying Spanish for the next few
months. On the 19th we got on the plane with my
sister Becky and my Dad and had a layover in San
Salvador for a few hours, arriving in San Francisco
close to midnight. My sister Debby picked us up at
the Airport and we stayed in a motel that night. I
was back on a plane Sunday morning heading back to
Omaha, arriving just in time to make it for the
evening service. So, it was a jam packed several
days with very little rest and a lot of air miles.
Thank you for praying. God blessed with safe
travels.
My Dad is slowly recovering. He has good movement in
his arms but his legs are still very limited in
their movement. He is still quite weak and is having
a lot of excruciating back pain. Guillain-Barré
attacks the nerves of the body and one of the
largest nerves in the body is the sciatic nerve,
therefore it is the one that takes the longest to
recover. That is one of the things that is causing
most of the pain. Please continue to pray for him
during the next few months as he continues to
recover. We are praying for complete recovery if
that is the Lord’s will. While he was so sick he was
used of the Lord to lead several nurses to the Lord.
One of the security guards and his physical
therapist also made professions of faith. I
personally met four of the nurses and heard their
testimonies. What a blessing to see how God used Dad
even in the midst of such suffering. What an example
to those of us who saw the results.
We are now packing to leave Iowa on Friday the 26th.
We will drive to Florida via South Carolina where we
plan to spend a little time with Barb’s brother. We
fly out of Ft. Lauderdale to Lima on January 8th. We
will need to spend a few days in Lima to do some
paperwork and hope to arrive home the following
week.
Thank you so much to all who have so faithfully
prayed for us during this furlough. It has been a
growing time for all of us and we praise the Lord
for His grace to see us through along the way.
Yours for Perú
Tim, Barb and the Whatley Clan
BMM in Urubamba, Perú
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