around the table, our and we would to wait to see Also, during the summer, income usually have

dips and we who have less resources to meet these needs.Your got the present. prayers, encouragement and financial help during this time would be a greatly appreciated. We had lot of laughter and attracted a bit of
Hurt but in Church May-June 2013

positive attention in the restaurant, which was unplanned, but a great testimony for our church.

A man in our church had a badAll fall Shook and was in the I had heard there were earthquakes Up hospital yesterday with in Puerto Rico, a but never felt a big one here until bad skull injury and the other night. injured ribs. He is awaiting his x-rays to see if they are Tina told a friend, broken, but in the mean "At rst I thought Sarah was kicking the time, and while in couch. pain, he Then Steve ran in and we all went running for doorways when the house really came to church. He said, "With everything going on, I just had to come here. You are like a father to me." We checked online

started shaking."

I wish more people felt that way, running to the house of 6.5 magnitude quake. Medical Update their Heavenly Father when in trouble. Our church is Even though it was 50 The A Chocolate Exchange Wein tried something newstill small, but at least to some in Puerto Rico, few months ago I noticed a,pain my left hip. it is the some miles NW of us, Although unrelated, investigating this well led towith the our place to go to find that help and comfort that comes for Valentines day that went over discovery of a nodule that proved to be cancerousand in my it was scary enough. church members, boosted our attendance got usfrom God. prostate gland.reactions After consulting with my physician, I some favorable from some non-church To me, it did not so Blessings have surgery scheduled Wednesday, June 5th. They are people also. much feel like a shaking or a rattling temblor, but going to remove the entire prostate to make sure they get Some of our Puerto churches have sent us checks more like theRican ground underneath me was sliding all the cancer out. a banquet at a little open air We decided to have already and have prayed for us during their services. It is

and read that it was a

from side to side and moving up and down, as if a restaurant near our church. But with the added twist wonderful to us to receive help from churches we have shallow wave passed underneath. The doctor and the tests of seem to indicate that I am a helped in the past. of having an exchange chocolates.
good candidate for a favorable out come, but I am still nervous about it when I hear "only" 30 percent suffer The food was denitely all Puerto Rican. The from one complication and 10 percent from another. So Mofongo, a please pray that I can have specialty peace and a was good outcome dish made of mashed, from this procedure. Challenges

our neighboring islands here in the Caribbean. fried pork skin inside it. Our Dios Les Bendiga, deacon We have health insurance but have Luis was eating a Family News Our daughter Rachel just had a baby to pay about 40 percent of soup things that was a bit strange (May the Lord Bless You All), and Tina ew to Pensacola, FL to help her for a few such as CT scans and lab tests. looking. I found out why. It weeks. Welcome Josiah, all 9 pounds 12.8 ounces was pigs feet stewed in a Steve and Tina Prelgovisk of you. We are facing a $1,500 expense brown gravy. Despite how it for the surgery and the cost of the medicine, etc. afterwards. sounds, it was great. Church Family This is who you are praying for. Denitely Puerto Rican comfort food.
Continental Baptist Missions, 11650 Northland Drive NE, Rockford, MI 49341 | cbm@cbmoffice.org |(616) 863-2226 Prelgovisk@yahoo.com | Blog: Prelgovisk.Blogspot.com | 3315 Calle 31, Sierra Bayamon, Bayamon, PR 00961 After Email: dinner, everyone got out the chocolate they brought. Some had just one candy bar, others a whole box of Valentine candy, while others came with bags of "Fun Size" variety pack candy bars.

A my bigdaughter one inBethany 1918 destroyed much Also, and her husband Abe of area large town missionaries to St. Croix, USVI. church up 40 of them on the west coast and Their killed 114 took people, an offering she could come help Tina care for me from aso 20 foot tsunami wave. Such stories seem so during after surgery recuperation . It is wonderful far my a way they have little impact. But it to was only 4 plantain bananas and is me when mission churches can in turn help missionaries years ago that the big quake leveled Haiti, one of baked with chunks of deep in need. Praise the Lord!

The ladies made slips of paper and wrote all the names of the people with chocolates. We each drew names and waited till every person had a slip. Then the rst person who drew the name stood up and Please pray for our safety, our ministry and our said something nice about the person they had family. Your support and visits are welcome also. drawn, without revealing the name. Then they walked May God Bless You All, Steve & Tina Prelgovisk
Continental Baptist Missions, 11650 Northland Drive NE, Rockford, MI 49341 | cbm@cbmoffice.org |(616) 863-2226 Personal: Prelgovisk@yahoo.com | Blog: Prelgovisk.Blogspot.com | 3315 Calle 31, Sierra Bayamon, Bayamon, PR 00961