kingdom travelin'

Friends, we cannot thank enough for your prayers. Our first post was on February 28, two months ago.

Today’s surgery (#18) is hope giving from a physical recovery standpoint. The skin grafts have not just “taken” but the skin is “growing”. Even the more complicated foot shows further sign of improvement.

But our young wounded warrior has grown impatient because of the constant pain. I can’t imagine, I have no ability to fathom being in a hospital bed for two months and undergoing 18 surgeries in constant pain, can you?

So today’s prayer request is this:

“Our Lord, you are the God of all comfort. Please send The Comforter to Oleg. Please provide him with encouragement and give him hope. Please God, send relief. In the name of our Savior, Jesus, Amen.”

Thanks for following and praying. After some relative success and an equal number of setbacks, Oleg returns to surgery tomorrow.

Please pray for the medical team to have wisdom and skill.

Please pray that they can figure out how to alleviate his constant pain.

May God move in his life and give strength to all his family.

Thank you for praying.

Two days ago our hero had surgery #17. Since the calf has, for the most part it seems, been mostly repaired, the medical team returned to work on the heel.

In the meantime, possibly because of immobility, the knee is giving our hero trouble. A brace from ankle to thigh is now in place.

Pain remains the big issue.

Our hero’s mom, herself a hero in her own right, had to return to her education role as all time off has been used up. Flexibility is needed to be present with her wounded warrior.

I offer two suggestions for prayer:

“Lord, we ask that you give wisdom, knowledge, and resources to the medical team so as to help our hero’s pain level. We pray that your Spirit would encourage him. May the tremendous progress you have already enabled give him hope for the future.

Please, oh Compassionate God, give all involved, especially this mother and family the grace they need to press on and persevere in caring for and encouraging this wounded soldier. We ask this for the thousands of others recovering from battle injuries.

Give them all the strength they need, according to your gracious will, in the name of Christ. Amen”

Thank you for praying.

Today was Oleg’s sixteenth surgery and it was a success. The calf is progressing nicely. Thanks be to God!

Thank you for praying.

It is a blessing to see how God is moving!

Please pray for continued progress and healing of the calf and even more for progress on Oleg’s foot.

Thank for praying.

We are amazed at the work of God! Through His grace there has been surprising progress.

There have been wonderful visits with family over the (Orthodox) Easter weekend.

On Wednesday the surgeons will open and examine Oleg’s calf that was previously reconstructed. If they are satisfied, a skin graph will close the calf.

We ask for prayer again:

“O Lord, the Great Physician, may your servants, the medical team, find good news and proceed successfully to the next step in Oleg’s progress. Be glorified oh Lord by their work and by this family’s faith. In the name that is above all names, Jesus, we pray. amen”

Thank you for praying.