Medical

Update
Dear Friends,
Churches and People Who Care
about
Missions:
A
few months
ago I noticed a pain in my left hip.
Although unrelated, investigating this led to the
We haveA
can to
Drive.
discovery
of a Blessing
nodule thatWe
proved
be cancerous in my
We have been a one car
prostate gland. After consulting with my physician, I
family for a while now.
have surgery scheduled Wednesday, June 5th. They are
We also had no plans to
going
to remove
entire
get a second
carthe
until
weprostate to make sure they get
all
the
cancer
out.
had enough in our saving
account to acquire one.
The
doctor
the teststoseem to indicate that I am a
Sadly,
that and
appeared
be sometime
the
far off
good
candidateinfor
a favorable
out come, but I am still
future. about it when I hear "only" 30 percent suffer
nervous
from one complication and 10 percent from another. So
But a crisis
arose.
carpool
that aI good
was using
to
please
pray that
I canThe
have
peace and
outcome
get around
became unavailable and we were left in
from
this procedure.
a difficult position.
Because ofChallenges
financial gifts from some churches,
family and friends, we got within reach of getting a
car have
for Tina.
And
we did but
justhave
that. She went out and
We
health
insurance
found
a
bargain
on
a
2008
Yaris.
to pay about 40 percent of things She is a happy
camper
now
andand
so lab
am tests.
I. We are now able to do our
such
as CT
scans
multiple ministries with much more freedom.

We are facing a $1,500 expense

Things to Get Used to
for the surgery and the cost of the
Getting ready for church, I
medicine,
etc.
afterwards.
went to the
local
Colmado

bad fall and was in the

hospital yesterday with a
bad skull injury and
injured ribs. He is awaiting
his x-rays to see if they are
broken, but in the mean
time, and
while in pain,
he The Easter week service
An
Interesting
Easter.
camean
to extra
church.
was
unusual
blessing. We had four guest
speakers
over three
days going
of
He said, "With
everything
on, I just had to come
services
and
all
of
them
were
here. You are like a father to me."
people that were part of our
ministry.
A Bible
College
I wish more
people
felt that way, running to the house of
student
preached
in our
their Heavenly Father
when in trouble. Our church is
Thursday night prayer
still small, but at least to some in Puerto Rico, it is the
meeting, a single-lady
place to go to
findI trained
that help and comfort that comes
missionary
who
from God.
came
back from Mexico and
presented her field, a young
Blessings
man that I discipled came and
preached
forPuerto
our Good
service
of my
Some of our
RicanFriday
churches
haveand
sentone
us checks
deacons
preached
Easter
Sunday.
We
had
35
already and have prayed for us during their services. It is
people attend our Good Friday service and were
wonderful to us to receive help from churches we have
very encouraged.
helped in the past.
A
That
is Trying
to Leave
Also,Bathroom
my daughter
Bethany
and her
husbandHome.
Abe areWe
recently paid a contractor to fix our
missionaries to St. Croix, USVI. Their church took up
bathroom drainage problem: our house
an offering sohad
she acould
comethat
help
Tina care
for me
shower
drained
directly
onto
during my after
. Itofis the
wonderful to
thesurgery
groundrecuperation
right outside
me when mission
churches
canplumber
in turn help
bathroom.
The
tied missionaries
the drain
in need. Praiseinto
thethe
Lord!
sewer system, but in the
process of fixing the problem, it got
Dios Les Bendiga,
worse. We can now see daylight
through large cracks in the walls where
(May the Lordthe
Bless
You All),
bathroom
is joined to our bedroom.
We think that the ground dried up and
from the house, lowering
Steve andshrank
Tinaaway
Prelgovisk
the foundation. Whatever is happening, when you
find that your bathroom is trying to leave home, it is
not a good day.

(neighborhood store). I found

So far we have been given two options: 1. Do
this entire pig draped over
nothing
hope
it will stop. Then patch
cracks.
Continental
Baptist
Missions,
11650 Northland Drive NE, Rockford,
MIand
49341
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the bare counter
with
the
is doable,
unsatisfactory.
2. Demolish
and
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rebuild.
This
is
undoable
and
alarming.
For
the
time
of a trickle of blood that
being,
we
have
done
all
that
we
know
to
do
and
are
reached the floor in front of
trusting
God
with
the
results.
Please
pray
for
the
the counter. I have lived
healing of our missionary house here in Puerto Rico.
here long enough that none
of this surprised me. Just
Love from Puerto Rico, Steve & Tina Prelgovisk
another day of missionary life on the mission field.
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