Dear Brother John,

    If  I could impose on you just a little, I would like to share a prayer request with your  readers.

Dear Doves,

    Today I am returning to the internet after an almost three weeks absence.  Before anything else I would like to ask the prayers of my brothers and sisters in Christ for my wife and myself.

    On October 20th my wife fell backwards and hit the floor very hard flat on her back.  I helped her up and asked her if she thought anything was broken.  She told me that she didn’t think so, only that she was real sore from the fall.  She continued to get around slowly for another week, only complaining of being sore.  Then the pain started.  She began to have intense pain on an increasing scale.  Finally on October 31st she asked me to take her to the emergency room.  The pain was becoming unbearable.  When she was   checked out the doctors discovered that she had three broken vertebra in her back and both sides of her pelvic bone was cracked.  She spent the next 12 days in the hospital.

    I was able to bring her home on November 11th.  The doctor sent her home with medication to control her pain.  She is to lift nothing and do practically nothing for the next three months [I hope we are all with the Lord by then] while her bones heal.  And she certainly is not to fall again during this next three months.  Another hard fall could be fatal.

    This is our situation right now.  This is the reason I haven’t been posting on the Doves, and also the reason some of you haven’t been receiving tapes and literature.  Helen ordinarily handles the tapes and literature and I write the articles and do the posting.  During Helen’s hospital confinement, and even after her coming home, I just haven’t had  the time to take care of a lot things pertaining to our ministry, and other things as well.  I know the Lord understands and I hope our dear brothers and sisters will too.

   When you go to the throne of grace, please remember us in your prayers.  We keenly feel the need of prayer, and especially at this time.  God bless you all.

                                            Maranatha,

                                            Pastor F. M. Riley