Written by David & Margaret Jones
It is comforting to be made aware of those who are upholding us in prayer. We believe that God is answering those requests made in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
In response to our obligation to be in contact with the agencies to which we are connected and to the assemblies that commended us, Margaret and I have though it convenient to send an update.
Since last December, when it was discovered that my cancer had returned, I have had a long time of hospitalization and constant medical supervision. At this moment, I am out of hospital and at home, having started on chemotherapy on the 7th of March and the second series is to start on the 25th, God willing. Margaret has just been on the phone with the oncologist and he wants to see me to assess what the second series should contain. Christian friends have offered us the use of an apartment in downtown Santiago which is not far from the hospital.
I am now considered an ambulatory patient so that I go and sit for a four-hour session at the Cancer Hospital at which time they attach an apparatus which will deliver about forty hours of chemo at which time I return for them to remove it. Two weeks later, I will return for another assessment of my condition and they will decide what to include in the third treatment.
We look to the Lord to answer the many prayers being offered and thus make progress through use of chemotherapy.
I can continue to work on the preparation of the Sunday Lessons which form part of the San Felipe Collection, www.sslessons.org. We also publish a meditation each day which is on the Internet. A young doctor has joined me in this daily presentation. We have over 1,400 subscribers who receive a copy in their mail box.
On the 16th of March, we ended the presentation of the radio program PALABRAS de VIDA (WORDS of LIFE). It was on March 16, 1963 that we began the RADIO program with a fifteen-minute-a-day release and a thirty-minute program on Sundays. It is marvellous to think that for FIFTY YEARS, we were able to preach the gospel with not one interruption of being taken off the air. Despite upheavals in the political world, including coups and earthquakes, the Word went out faithfully every day for fifty years at various stations. We thank God for enabling us to reach this milestone.
Thank you all again for remembering us in prayer as we continue to trust in the Lord to make us well so that we can continue to serve Him in this land. It was in November, 1959 that we first arrived. For fifty-three years and four months this has been our field and service. God has been faithful. We continue to believe in Him Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. 2nd Timothy 1:9.
Spring 2013
Written by David & Margaret Jones - Chile