One more thing.

Oh, yeah. Sue & TJ were praying while I was visiting Janet in the hospital. They were laying out before God all the places where the enemy has been stealing, and they were claiming seven times restitution (per Proverbs). TJ was detailing the restitution she was asking for.

We've taught her when she's praying to look to see if God gives her something in reply. Today, He gave her (in a vision) a very rich bar of very dark chocolate (her favorite); when she unwrapped the wrapper, there was a gold ticket (think Willy Wonka) but this one said, "I'm on it!"

I love it!

A little prayer covering would be appropriate, I think.

Things are getting out of hand down here. We're getting a lot of challenges, particularly Sue is.

* I've been sick: was yesterday particularly.
* TJ is seriously sick. Flu-ish stuff. She's been throwing up a whole lot.
* Our dog (well, in all honesty, Sue's dog) died this week. Actually, she had him put down: he was so old and weak he couldn't feed himself, and had a bunch of other problems. That hurt her tremendously.
* Her oldest brother (Dayton) is suffering from dementia and is pretty incapacitated. He's 21 years older than Sue.
* Her mom (Janet) went into the hospital on Monday. She should have been out in a couple of days (bladder infection), but she's still there. And she's stunningly weak.
* We got a call this evening that Sue's other brother, Charlie, brother had a stroke on Tuesday, I think it was. He was taken to the hospital, but he wasn't even identified until Thursday or Friday when his friends were looking for him. It's very serious: he's completely non-responsive, though they've taken him out of ICU. Charlie is the brother that has been closest to Sue. He's 19 years older than Sue.
* Sue's trying to figure out how to tell her mom about it. From my perspective, it looks like this brother (Charlie) has been Janet's favorite; we're not sure how she'll take it, particularly considering her weakness already.

So we're feeling the heat. It's being a good opportunity for us (especially Sue & TJ) to go after stuff in prayer; we like that. But she's running on empty in two or three departments.

Thanks for praying!

After The End

OK, the subscriptions are done, but as I said, I may post updates from time to time.

This is a prayer request from Trevor on behalf of some of his team members. Thanks for your prayers.

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For those of you who know Daniel & Terry Vallieres, last night their daughter in law Becky and 3 of their grandchildren were rushed into the hospital with food poisoning and are now on IV therapy. They are is serious conditions and their son Dan is stuck up north working and can't get down to them in Dawson Creek and feels very helpless.

Please for this young family that God would heal all of them.

Trevor

A Fitting End

I think it's time that we wrap up this phase of this blog. It started out about a week-long trip for three guys to pass the Jesus People torch on to a new generation, and it ended up being the lifeline (figuratively and literally) for our team leader, Trevor Macpherson.

(Wild hare: it might be interesting to read through some of the old posts to review how serious this was, and how much your prayers changed our world and Trevor's life!)

Trevor is at home now, recuperating. He's completely "back" mentally, but not all the way back physically; the same physical tasks take more out of him, but that's what "recuperation" is all about. That's also our final prayer request: that his recuperation will be quick and complete.

I'm going to stop updating this site for now. I will no doubt use the site and/or the blog for another purpose at another time, but we'll call this the end of the Summer of Love Prayer Update.

Let me say it one more time, from Trevor, Todd and myself: thank you so much for your prayers over the past six weeks. You've had a very real impact on all three of us, and we all agree that your prayers kept Trevor alive when the enemy and the infection had decided to kill him. There were times when it seemed like the doctors said one thing, and the intercessors said another thing, and every time, the prayers of the saints prevailed, and the doctors changed their minds.

A technical note: There are a number of folks who are subscribed to this list; after this post has cleared FeedBurner's launch chutes, I will be deactivating those subscriptions. Should this same team (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) do this again, I may re-activate your names, and this post. If you'd rather not, there are instructions with this emailed posting to completely unsubscribe or delete the feed. (If that's complicated, just email me, and I'll do it for you: admclain(at)gmail.com.)

Again, thanks for being part of an incredible adventure with us!

Trevor, Todd & David

Trevor is Home From the Hospital

Greetings prayer warriors

Tues. morning was my last IV antibiotic and with all of the tests coming back clean, I was released in the afternoon. It is just sooooooo nice to be home and out of the hospital (33 days all together).

Right now my main goal has been to take over the all of the daily care of Grace and give Judy and Becky a much needed break. However, at this time that takes most of my strength and energy to do, so even though I really want to personally thank each one of you, who not only prayed, but got others to pray for me and sent encouraging emails and even finances to help meet those needs not covered by our travel insurance.

So I am sending out this group email to once more thank all of you for your prayers and support and hopefully over the next week or two I'll be able to get in touch with you.

Trevor

Macpherson Update

Hi again Prayer Warriors

Although, I was suppose to get out of the hospital this past week, they discovered that I had developed a new infection and so on Tues. night they took me off of the original antibiotic and started me on a new intervenes antibiotic called Vancomycin, which they believe will deal with the new bug. Since then, my incision has been looking better each day and I am finished the antibiotics on Mon.and if everything is still improving, I will be out for good. As it is now, I need to be in the hospital at 10am and 10pm each day to be hooked up to the antibiotics, so for the last three days they have been letting me out on day passes, so I can be home to help out with some of Grace's care as Judy, Becky and Matt have been taking turns looking after her and they and they are all getting pretty weary. It has been great to be home, please pray that everything will go right and I will be out on Mon.

Judy

As well as looking after Grace, all of my other responsibilities have fallen on her shoulders as well and she is feeling a little bit overwhelmed and could really use your prayers for strength and His peace.

Becky

Had to postponed her Australia plans because of my hospital stay, but has now revamped them and Lord willing will be leaving her present job and moving to Australia in the middle of Oct. for 4 months, to work and travel. She asks for prayer for wisdom in this transition and to be able to find a good place to stay and a great job while down there.

Matt, Evie, Bella and Adeleh

Just found out that Matt's work visa for the States may take a fair bit longer than they were originally told. There is still a possibility of it happening soon, if they are accepted in the "financial hardship" category, which means that they will expedite the application and they might still be able to get down there within a good time period. So please pray that when they apply the will be received.

Jesse and Kristi

Are both finishing their masters degrees in Feb. and then will be moving home for quite a long time. They have really enjoyed their years of travel, but are now really looking forward to settling down. Please pray for God's blessing in both of their lives.

Grace

Had a wonderful time this summer with her summer intervener, Laura. They went on numerous field trips on the Handy Dart, during their 5 hours each day. It was also a real blessing because when I ended up in the hospital, Becky was able to change Laura's time schedule around and she did a number of 10 hour days, during the time while Matt was working and then he took over when he got home. Please pray for Grace's on going health.

In His Saving Grip

Trevor

Other Updates: Randy Emerson

The other person I'd asked you to pray for was Pastor Randy Emerson from Cloverdale Christian Fellowship. Here's an update from his wife Chris:

Thanks David,

I guess you didn't hear (I thought it was sent out) - Randy's heart returned to normal heart rate (after 8 days of "running a marathon day and night" as his doctor said, the day after we returned home from our church family camp. It was scary at times - He could have been in the hospital during the whole camp time, but Randy really believed the Lord told him to keep going, keep believing, and wait..... A hard one to follow because there was lots of advice, but God was faithful to His word. Randy was only going to follow normal procedure if God told him to -

So we praised the Lord.

And we are praising the Lord for Trevor and we will continue to stand against the agenda of the enemy.

We all sure love that guy - and I have sure appreciated your emails and how they were worded..... Well done!

Many, many blessings!

Chris

Other Updates: Sharon & Ramona

I had asked for prayer for Sharon & Ramona, also from the Summer of Love Convergence in San Francisco. It always bugs me when people ask for prayer, but never share the answers:

Some of you already know, but many of you do not...Ramona and I are back in WA. Our trip was so good, but so exhausting! We are so glad to be back. Thank you all for your prayers, you don't know how much they are needed!

We've been back for a couple of weeks now, but neither of us has had the time to sit and write. Ramona was hit with a sickness while we were in San Francisco, and she lost her voice for 3 weeks! I took off camping for a week, to get away and recouperate a little, but I also was taken with sickness, and so that wasn't much of a getaway. We are both still fighting this sickness, but at least we don't feel miserable anymore, and Ramona has her voice back, as of yesterday....not strong, but it's there.

We ended up getting an email from some people we met in Hawaii a few days ago. They were at the Sea-Tac airport...stuck, with no where to go, and not knowing anyone around here...not to mention they have no money. They have a flight out of here on Sept. 12th, but it was going to cost way to much to change it, so they're here till then. We made some phone calls, found a place for them (and us with them) to stay, and went and got them. Tomorrow we are on our way to Spokane for 4 days, for the Healing Rooms Conference, and they're going with us. Ramona and I feel so good about it all, it's just so interesting how God works. They are a newlywed couple, Matt and Jenny, and Jenny is from Scotland, and just so much fun to listen to! :) I love her accent!

Gosh, we are both so tired from all this, and we've both had our little breakdowns, but God is our strength, and He's not going to give us more than we can handle. It has really been a time of trusting Him, and it's stretched us in many ways. We still need a LOT of miracles to happen, and please, if you could, keep praying for us, we really need it!

Thank you all! You're a blessing!

Sharon Rose & Ramona Michelle

A New Infection

Over the weekend, Trevor’s wound got red all around it. For a while, the redness increased, then it decreased when it was prayed for (Trevor had several visitors this weekend; that was great!).

Trevor says, “I’m growing something else:” some other kind of infection is growing in his wound, and particularly along where he was stitched up. So they’ll try some other kind of antibiotic to address this new infection.

Other than this new infection, he could go home. In fact, he may anyway: there is the possibility of him going home, and them treating Trevor as outpatient. At this point, it would involve two IV infusions daily, though they’re willing to discuss oral antibiotics as well.

I gotta say, it sounded like Trevor is tired of being in the hospital. He’s been hospitalized for almost 4 weeks now, and he’s so close to being home (he’s like 5 minutes from home) that he can taste it, but he’s not home.

Sounds like exactly the right job for prayer. Let’s pray for a quick resolution to the infection, for a quick release to home, and for oral antibiotics that will work effectively (and side-effect free) to finish off this last infection!

Thanks again for your faithful prayers!

Good News From Trevor

Dear Intercessors and Prayer Warriors,

I am still in the hospital, but I have some good news:

1. We are now grandparents for a 2nd time. At 10:53pm on August 27th, Evie gave birth to Adeleh Joy Macpherson, a beautiful 6lbs9oz little girl. On Wednesday night they came up for a visit and she is just so cute.

2. Think of my wound as a long canyon and up until now they have been talking about waiting until the Wound Vac machine helped to fill the inside of the canyon and then put a skin graph across the top. This would take weeks or maybe months. But the surgeon here at Surrey Memorial said because the sides of the wound were movable enough, that the 2 sides could be brought together and joined across the top with stitches. So, I had an operation on Wednesday, and as long as it doesn't get infected I could be going home sometime next week -YEAH!

3. I realized why this was such a scary experience for me, it is because I am used to being in the front of battle with something to do, when under attack. But this time I was totally out of it and needed to count on others in this, to step in and pray me through it. I have heard from people that I was on prayer lists all over the world and Dave said that some days there were over 200 hits a day of people checking the blog site to see how to pray.

Again I thank each of you for being that part of the Body of Christ that was used by God to save my life.