From Deborah Tankersley: Our pastor, Bro Sammy Brister, has been battling lung cancer for over a year. He has undergone several rounds of chemo and radiation. He goes for scans and results today. Please join us in praying for excellent results and a full healing.

From Marc Kinton via facebook: Wanted to let everyone know that my Nana passed away during the night last night. She’s gone to be with Jesus and my Papa, no more suffering.
Please remember Marc and his family during this time.

From Preacher Bill: thanks for the prayers , Dorothy Sills was our pastor’s mother; his wife Sandy is alive and kicking. It was a beautiful homecoming service for Gary’s mom who went to be with lord on valentine’s day or as gary said to be with her valentine Gary’s father. Thanks again for all the prayers.

From Preacher Bill Dickerson:
1. Prayers are needed for my family. My sister Louise has Alzheimer’s which has progressed to where she doesn’t remember who she is talking to on the phone. My brother-in-law James, her husband, went into surgery Friday where they found stage 4 cancer in his colon and intestines. It has spread into other areas of his body. It is very serious. Their daughter Pattie has cellulitis and cannot help care for her parents at this time. Her brother Danny is taking care of everyone. He has had a lot dumped on him in a very short span of time. Pray for strength for him.
2. Also remember all of our family there in Princeton WV. James & Louise were the glue that held the family together. All family gatherings were held in their home.
3. Also pray for our pastor Gary Sills as he lays his wife, Dorothy, to rest this afternoon and for our church family as we minister and care for him.
4. Thank you all for your prayers for me and my family. They really give me strength and peace.

From Lisa Collier: Please pray for Brandi Berner. She is currently in the hospital with a blood clot in her brain. They are not operating at this point, but have her on blood thinners and morphine.

From Shelby Miles: Can you please add my little cousin Bry, son of Danielle Miles, to the prayer list. He has a horrible form of mercer, and is currently hospitalized for it. He was taken to the hospital Friday night, and put straight into surgery Saturday morning. When they went in they realized it was already into his blood line, and we were very lucky to have brought him in when we did, otherwise within hours his organs would have shut down. He will go back into surgery Sunday morning, and hopefully will be released Monday. Please pray for little Bry Bry as he is only two years old and going through this much already. Thank you. UPDATE;
Bry went back into surgery this morning, and came out like a champ. He has now left the hospital and is back home. He will go back Tuesday and Friday to change the dressing, and to make sure everything is still good. He sure has showed us who the brave one in the family is!
- Shelby Miles.

From Chaplain Joe SannuttI: Praise Report: Wanda Garrison, (Paul Raines’ sister in law) called Saturday to thank us for praying for her. She said that she “breezed right through the surgery”!
She had Stage 4 colon cancer and the doctors removed some large tumors and 22 cancerous lymph nodes. There had also been a tumor above the colon and the day before that surgery was scheduled, when they went in to look for it with a scope, it was gone! She said the docs were amazed.
She said she will be going for chemo for a few months and she asked that we continue to pray for her and her family.

From Chaplain Carol Rix:
1. Please pray for a work associate of Tom’s, from Minneapolis, MN., whose wife has been diagnosed with Breast Cancer! She is in her 40′s and has had her first chemo treatment! Brent & Jill. Two children in college and one in high school!
2. Also continued prayer for Glenn & Debbie. Glenn has Leukemia. He is home know and has had the bone marrow transplant. His kidneys have failed and he is receiving dialysis 3 days a week! They are extremely busy with appointments etc..everyday! Please remember Debbie too! Those caretakers are under extreme stress too!
3. Pray for me as the found a cyst behind my knee after surgery and the Orthopedic Doctor has said I need to start thinking about knee replacement surgery! NOOO! I have bone on bone in both knees and have known this for 10-12 years! I had a cortisone shot in the left knee and it has helped so far! Please pray that God heals my knees! I want quality of life, and I would have surgery, God’s Will be done! But I sure don’t want to have to go through that!
God Blessing to You All!

From Chaplain Joe Sannutti: Chris Lewis asks for prayer for his family. His 88 year old grandfather, Leymon, has been placed with hospice. He is ready to go home to be with God but his two sons are not ready to let go. They are having a hard time with their father’s imminent death. Please pray for peace and comfort and strength during this time. May God give Leymon a wonderful sendoff from his sons with full release. May Leymon be spared as much pain as possible.

This is Cathy and Donald Webb. We would like to request prayers for Donny “Hollywood” Urban and our daughter Anita as they start their lives together as husband and wife on Saturday, February 18th. Since Anita’s accident on September 4, 2010, we are not surprised at the recovery progress that she has made, because we knew that God was in control of the entire situation. She still is in the recovery process and God is most definitely the Great Healer! God listened to everybody’s prayers for Anita after her accident and those prayers are something that our entire family will forever be grateful for! Another blessing that Donald and I have been able to experience was the love that continued to grow between Donny and Anita. We are looking forward to Donny “officially” becoming part of our family on the 18th.

PRAISE: From Bob Gulitti’s Caring Bridge: We have been in such a weird state of limbo for so long waiting for the results of another PET scan that finally getting the results has just been like finally, finally eeking to the top of that big hill on a roller coaster ride & anticipating what you know is coming next – that scary, thrilling elation from the sheer momentum coming from making that hill… The PET is showing no metabolic activity, no cancer, & while we’re coming off of that hill I’m looking for the courage & the faith to actually let go of the death grip & throw my arms in the air screaming! That’s the best I can do to explain why, but this has been one of the harder posts to make.
Some of the friends we’ve made along the way with this have just passed. Some have triumphed. Things remain in perspective while we’re on top of the world & deeply humbled all at once. We are every synonym of blessed & grateful one can conceive. And we’re moving forward with purpose, making the most of this new momentum.
Bobby & I were talking the other night about last May – about when he went for the first PET scan & about getting the news. We were like a hurt little animal would be, curling up in the corner with our wounds, definitely not wanting to let on to anyone. Not anyone. Surely this wasn’t really happening. It probably wasn’t cancer anyway. No labels, thank you very much. No pity, please. But the call came as Bob was crossing the Atchafalaya bridge – so strangely symbolic to be over that swamp as the eerie hollow came over us with the confirmation. He crossed that bridge much differently than he entered it. You may know, there’s not really turning back on the Atchafalaya. Just some emergency phones along the way. And miles.
So when he went back to the PET Imaging place last week, Bob told the ladies that they’re like a roller coaster in there: They gave him the worst news of his life & now he’s looking for the best! Now, whatever the next bridge is, we’ll cross it!!!
Take care!!

From Preacher Bill Dickerson: Longtime friend and a great pastor, his name is Gary Sills and wife Sandy need our prayers. Both are loving and God’s special people. Some of you may remember that about two months after becoming our pastor he was attacked by the loss of two deacons in our church and another the next month. In march his son-in-law was killed in an auto accident. I and a lot of people saw the real strength of a Godly man, and now last night at 9:45 he called to let me know his mother, Dorothy Sills had passed [something we had prayed about and knew was coming]. He was almost happy to know she wasn’t suffering anymore and had gone to be with her loving husband and God on Valentine’s Day. Myself and others are proud to be able to run the day to day business of the church until his return and ask for prayers for him and his family. Thanks for your prayers. PB & J

From Chaplain Joe Sannutti: I just heard that Richard Selph, a long-time drag racer from Alamo, Georgia was air-lifted to Savannah yesterday after he had an aneurysm burst in his brain. As of today, he was up and alert and recognizing his friends and family. Let’s put Richard and his family on the prayer list, praying for a complete and quick recovery.

From Chaplain Carol Rix; I just came from the surgeon that did my surgery two weeks ago and because I’m having pain behind my knee they did an ultrasound to be sure I didn’t have a blood clot! Thank God it was not! Its a Baker’s Cyst and it is extremely painful! Seeing an Orthopedic on Monday afternoon. Please pray for healing of this Cyst! And the doctor. I have a heating pad on my knee and an ice pack on my incision for fluid around it! Crazy! But praising God for His Will be done!

From Chaplain Joe Sannutti: I’d like for us to be praying for Dale Taylor’s dad, Wade Taylor. He is in his 80′s and isn’t in the best health. He fell this week and broke his hip. He is in Wilmington, NC at the hospital in ICU.

Continued prayer needed for Carol Roberts as she continues through the Indiana court system. Dennis Roberts also asks for prayer for 2 others who are facing battles in Indiana courts.

Pray for all the RFC staff as they minister at Pomona this weekend.

Prayers are needed as God Speed Ministry moves forward with the Vision God has laid before us.

From Thomas Pope: NASCAR spokesman Kristi King, who’s from Ellerbe, NC. Former track publicist at North Carolina Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. Her brother was charged yesterday with shooting their parents to death at their home outside Ellerbe. And he needs prayer, too, for obvious reasons.

From Preacher Bill Dickerson: I received a text from Bob Gulitti. He just finished a round of tests. NO CANCER! Praise God!