Dear friends:

ANSWERED PRAYER.  Thank you for your prayers for Travis (Tex) Armstrong, which have been answered, praise the Lord.  He is back home and much stronger.  I spoke with him yesterday and again today, and his voice is stronger today than it was yesterday.

NEW REQUEST.  Tex requests prayer for a close friend, Colonel Richard Case, age 88.  Colonel Case is a hero from WWII where he parachuted into Normandy on D-Day with the famed 101st Airborne Division.  The exploits of the 101st during WWII were the subject of a wonderful mini-series docudrama titled "Band of Brothers."  He Jumped at Utah Beach to secure the causeway for the invasion and experienced 21 consecutive days of combat.  He was later a part of the bloody "Battle of the Bulge"  in snow and sub-freezing temperatures against the German offensive fighting Allied forces in the heavily forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg, one of the most brutal battles of the war.

On the 50th and 60th anniversary of D-Day he jumped at Utah Beach along with 21 of the original paratroopers.  He has been awarded a Purple Heart, 2 Bronze Service Stars, Oak Leaf Cluster with a Distinguished Unit Badge.  As if one war was not enough, he also later served in the Korean War.

Tex says that Colonel Case is a real John Wayne character.

Here is why he needs prayer. The other day Colonel Case was eating a steak in a restaurant and suddenly a piece of meat got lodged in his throat.  He could not breathe, and before the meat could be removed he became unconscious.  He has been in a coma ever since.

Please pray that he would awake from that coma, in Jesus' name, and will suffer no permanent damage.  Pray that this brave man who helped defeat the Nazi war machine would not go down to defeat himself from just a piece of meat.

Thanks,

Jim