Goin' on Strike

We just received word from Kenan, a Pioneers coworker in Peru, that there is a general strike planned for April 1,  the very day we are to fly into our Peruvian supply town! Kenan and Vanessa are hoping to get a grocery list of items for us today as a strike could end up bringing the country to a standstill with stores, banks, etc. closed indefinitely as well as lots of demonstrations in the streets. Nothing like a little excitement for our arrival in Peru! Thank you for praying.

-Brad

Post-op

Rebecca survived the removal of her cancerous "pimple" this morning! Next week she gets the stitches removed and, Lord willing, we are still set to fly on Monday, March 31. Thanks for praying!

Skin Cancer!? Really!?

Well, Rebecca felt like she, too, needed something medically peculiar and decided to get skin cancer! As we've been packing and organizing that strange pimple on Rebecca's forehead continued to get our attention. Finally, Rebecca decided that she would go ahead and make an appointment with our family doctor to get it checked out as that would "just make us feel better about things." Neither one of us thought that it would really be anything too serious. Weren't we surprised when after church on Sunday our family doctor approached us and told us that Rebecca's biopsy came back positive for basal-cell skin cancer!

In order to have the necessary medical insurance coverage to have the pimple removed by a dermatologist, all of Rebecca's doctors' appointments had to be this month! We praise God for His providence in working out the details for Rebecca to get in to the dermatologist this month and that we can still fly to Peru by the end of the month.

These various health issues that we have encountered does sober us as we think about returning to the tropics where lots of sunshine and lots of fire ants (thinking of Koleman's allergy to fire ant stings) abound. We do feel confident that God would have us go to Peru, though, and look forward to His continued guiding in our lives.

-Brad