Prayer Request from Claudia Hart
Please keep our much-loved pastor, Bob Hallman, his wife, Becky and his sons, John and Michael in prayer. This news is excerpted from information Pastor Bob freely shared. To say we are not heartbroken would be a lie. We know that God is able to heal in an instant and we are praying for a miracle.
"Despite a very successful and well executed robotic-assisted laperoscopic radical prostatectomy, the pathology report on the tissue surrounding my prostate was less than stellar. While my aggressive cancer hasn't yet metastisized, it has spread, like dandelion seeds in the wind, and taken root in my bladder and surrounding lymph nodes and, in all likelihood, in the rest of my lymphatic system and possibly other organs.
I will be meeting with my urologist, Dr. Peter Tran, on Kauai this coming Thursday to follow up on my surgery and to get a referral for an appropriate oncologist to help me map out a treatment strategy that will likely include radiation, hormone therapy and chemotherapy. We also have implemented some alternative non-medical therapies including health supplements along with a modified vegan diet in an effort to slow the cancer and heal my body.
Despite the rather cloudy forecast, I continue to enjoy God's perfect peace and joy in the midst of my new journey and have had dozens and dozens of opportunities to love, encourage, pray for and evangelize those around me. It’s been nothing less than a wonderful, fruitful and spiritually invigorating adventure and I’m fully embracing it and loving every minute of it, thus far! Without a doubt, God has heard your prayers and intercessions and is doing "exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us (Ephesians 3:20)!
Along with encouraging and praying for many of the 6th floor staff at Pali Momi, it was a special privilege for Becky and me to lead one of my nurses, Kira, to Christ just before being discharged on Thursday! She was so open, so ready and so grateful to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ, repent of her sins, ask the Father for forgiveness and receive Jesus into her heart as her Lord and Savior! What a thrill it is to be a follower of Jesus Christ and to be commissioned as ambassadors of the message of reconciliation through the finished work of Christ on the cross! Consequently, aggressive cancer is my new pulpit and I plan to use it preach the gospel, to encourage the saints and to advance the Kingdom of God by any and every means possible!"
Bob's response reminds me of this passage: "As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?" Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him." (John 9:1-3)