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>From: "David A. Jessee"
>Subject: Prayer request
>Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:32:41 -0400
>
>Subject: Prayer need for Missionary David Allen
>
>Please take some time to pray and email this to other Christians. It's
>important to pray for our dear Brothers and Sisters around the world.
>Ezekiel David Allen is a young missionary on the Chiang Mai, Thailand
>mission team. He is critically ill with an unknown parasite and
>apparently WILL DIE WITHIN TWO MONTHS unless there is an intervention by
>the Lord.
>
>Please help create a global blanket of prayer for David, Michelle and
>their 4 month old daughter, Brianna.
>
>From: David Allen
>
>My condition is serious now. The body is beginning to break down
>because I have no more fat or nutrient reserves. My diet consists
>mostly of vegetable broth, Gatorade and saltine crackers. I tried
>homemade bread a few weeks ago and ended up in the emergency room. I am
>in constant pain and have taken pain killers regularly. The severe
>diarrhea has continued for 7 weeks and I have been in the emergency room
>5 times. In the last 3 days there have been sharp pains in my kidneys,
>so they are running tests to see if my kidneys are infected. So far, 8
>doctors have not been able to diagnose the parasites. One lab in Dallas
>thought they had a positive diagnosis (a rare parasite called
>cryptosporidium), but the Public Health Center of Disease Control in
>Houston said it was an incorrect diagnosis. They have found 2 foreign
>agents, but no one has ever seen them before or can identify them. One
>is a parasite and the other looks more like an amoebae. One of the
>effects of the parasites is to prevent my GI tract from absorbing
>nutrition. The CDC in Atlanta is 3-6 months behind, so they cannot help
>in time. My doctors are trying everyone else. They are in contact with
>one of the top infectious disease doctors in Thailand, and several of
>the experts here in the states. I believe that the pictures of the
>parasites are to be passed around until someone can identity them.
>
>I am not doing well. I feel like I am in a very dark valley right now.
>I have been praying for so long for help with no response, that I have
>become discouraged in prayer. This is a first for me in my life.
>Michelle and my parents are being a tremendous support for me, but they
>are having a hard time seeing me suffer so much. My prayers now are
>very elemental "Father, save me!" But the pain continues each day and I
>continue to lose weight. Please pray not only for my body, but for my
>spirit. I have not known fear like this before. I don't want to be
>fearful, and I don't need to be fearful because I am confident in my
>salvation. I think my fear is related more to the thought of not being
>with my wife and the new baby. This was the happiest time of my life
>before I became sick.
>
>David Allen
>We are encouraging everyone we know to lift up David and his family
>before the Lord of Lords. Please forward this message to those you
>think will join us in this global chain of prayer.
>
>Thanks,
>
>INTERNATIONAL MISSION BOARD, SBC Southern Africa Regional Office PO Box
>A-614, Avondale LIFE IS GOOD BECAUSE GOD IS.
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