Chi Alpha @ Stanford

Shaowei injured him­self pretty badly in a bicy­cling acci­dent last Fri­day. He’s okay, but he could use your prayers (and your love, give him a call to let him know you’re think­ing about him). He’s got some stitches next to his left eye (which was unin­jured) and he can’t eat solid food for a few weeks owing to some den­tal mishaps stem­ming from the rather abrupt jux­ta­po­si­tion of his teeth with the asphalt.

Please pray for both heal­ing and for finan­cial pro­vi­sion (cause if you’ve never been injured, the shock to your pock­et­book is just as bad as the shock to your body).

Paula and I will be in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. for two weeks par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Gen­eral Coun­cil of the Assem­blies of God (our bien­nial decision-making session).

We’d appre­ci­ate your prayers as we travel and as we help make some impor­tant decisions.

We’d also appre­ci­ate your understanding–we’ll check our email as fre­quently as we can, but we’re not sure how quickly we’ll be able to get back to you.

See you again soon!

By the way, there are some new pho­tos in the photo gallery. Check it out!

Paula Marks, who is mar­ried to Bob Marks on the Chi Alpha National Lead­er­ship Team, had a brain aneurysm burst last night. Accord­ing to the email I received, “she is cur­rently in a coma in neuro inten­sive care unit and is unre­spon­sive.” The aneurism is deep in her brain, which makes surgery difficult.

Bob and I used to joke that we were lucky men–we each had a Paula. Please ask God to restore Bob’s Paula to him.

UPDATE: On 12/4 in the morn­ing I received this email:
“Many of you are email­ing me want­ing a lat­est update on my mom.

That is what I am pray­ing for. I told her that last night and reminded her that her strength is in the LORD. PSALM 121 is what we have taped in her room…we are also remind­ing her that it is “Not by might, nor by power but by His spirit, says the Lord.” Thank you for pray­ing for her! ”

UPDATE: on 12/4 in the after­noon I received this mes­sage:
We just got a call from the hospital…when the doc­tor asked Paula to raise
her two fin­gers– she did.

Praise God for his answer to prayer! The fam­ily is very encour­aged, but
Paula still needs our prayers for con­tin­ued healing.

Wow–the school year is upon us. I hope you’ve started packing!

I wanted to let you know that cam­pus min­istries aren’t allowed to spon­sor
any events for new stu­dents dur­ing ori­en­ta­tion week, so we won’t have
any wor­ship ser­vices, prayer meet­ings, or out­reach times your first few
days on campus–we’ll let you know about those when they draw closer!

Our min­istry to you dur­ing this first week will be heart­felt prayer.
We’ve been pray­ing for you daily since we first learned your
name, but our prayers have been some­what generic. We’d like to change
that.

If you have any spe­cific prayer needs, just email me
and let me know what they are. Be sure to tell me if you don’t
want me to share your prayer requests with our prayer team!