Cezette Barnes just called to let us know that Max is undergoing emergency brain surgery at this time. Hopefully, this surgery will clear up the problems he has been having. After the surgery, he will be in ICU for 3-4 days, then back to the cancer center, followed by rehab. Please continue to keep Cezette and Max in your prayers. Cezette thanks everyone for their prayers.
Our daughter, Becky Pettit, just lost her 6 year old daughter only five months ago to heart disease. My daughter has been in therapy and in grief counseling since. However, she is now suffering from severe depression. The school, where she works as a High school biology teacher has intervened and has sent her to a clinic in South Florida to be evaluated. We are forever grateful for their actions. Please lift her up in prayer.
Thanks, Debbie and Art Stanchina
Please keep Max and Cezette Barnes in your prayers. Max is still hospitalized at UNC Chapel Hill.
Fran Hufnagle is scheduled for surgery this week. Please pray for Fran and the doctors performing the surgery.
Max Barnes returned home on Tuesday, starting feeling ill again, and is now being taken by plane (too unsafe in this weather to be air lifted)back to UNC Chapel Hill. Cezette will be driving back shortly. Please keep Max in your prayers for improved health and Cezette for safe travels and strength during this time.
A funeral service for Charlotte, Marcy Brenner and Lou Castro’s daughter, will be held Friday, March 5, at 11 am at Ocracoke United Methodist Church. The church is located at 71 School Road. Ferries operate hourly. Please keep Marcy, Lou, and their families in your prayers. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to: Marcy Brenner and Lou Castro PO Box 734 Ocracoke, NC 27960
Christian sympathy is extended to Patty Humphrey on the passing of her mother, Maxine Crossett, on February 22.
Expressions of sympathy may be sent to Ed and Patty Humphrey at 181 Clamshell Trail, Southern Shores, NC 27949.
Betty Jennette’s daughter, Lori Jonkers, went to the doctor yesterday and is awaiting results of blood tests. She will be having a procedure done in 2 wks. Betty would like to thank their Duck church family for the prayers for Lori.
Max Barnes is being air lifted to UNC-Chapel Hill because of medical complications. Please pray for Max, Cezette, and the family and the medical teams as they care for Max.
Suzanne Slegel is now home from the hospital following her heart surgery. She is resting comfortably and needs her rest.
Barbara Figiel will be moving from Leigh Sentara Hospital on Sunday or Monday. She will be at the Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital, 1309 Kempsville Rd, Norfolk, Va 23502. We praise God for his healing powers.
Betty Jennette shares that their daughter, Lori Jonkers, is feeling much better and is now working part time. She will be going back to the doctor on Monday and surgery will be scheduled. Betty would like to thank her Duck Church family for all their prayers and asks for continued prayers.
Barbara Figiel had successful knee replacement surgery this morning and is resting comfortably.
Please continue to pray for Laura Daniels following her surgery on Monday.
Please continue prayers for Dan Ottavio, son in law of Pop Springfield. He has been diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer, which has spread. He is currently in a Baltimore hospital.
Laura Daniels is at home now and recovering from her surgery.
Always:
Pray for our nation as we have people in financial stress.
Pray for our leaders that they may make the right choices.
Prayer for our church:
Eternal God, source of guidance and direction, what you require of us you also reveal, and what you ask of us you also enable. There is nothing good that we do apart from your making it possible. You are the author and the finisher of our faith. We give thanks for Christ Jesus, who fulfills on our behalf all that you could possibly want us to be. We give thanks for the Holy Scripture, which sets forth your will and way for your chosen people. We give thanks for the Holy Spirit, who encourages in every way. Hear us this day as we pray for your church in Duck, North Carolina. In your great and abundant mercy help make us a place of hospitality that all who enter this sacred place may know that they are loved and accepted. Hear our intercessions on behalf of others, and strengthen us to sere them in appropriate ways. We lift up all the leaders of our church and ask that you encourage and strengthen them in their calling. Attune our lives to the intent of your commandments, that we may come to love you with soul, mind, and body and be enabled to love our neighbors as ourselves. We pray in the name of Jesus, who makes possible such love.
Dear Church Family,
Your expression of sympathy with cardsand prayers following the passing of my twin brother was greatly appreciated.
Thanks to Pastor Ray for his visit in Elizabeth City. It was comforting to me, my family, my Mother, and my brother’s
family. Thanks again.
In Christian love
Joyce Sawyer