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Terry & Muriel Henderson Dear
Family and Friends: With
the Lord’s help and your prayers we have made it through yet another
surgery
and we are doing okay. Muriel had corrective surgery on Thursday, June 2nd
to repair the areas where the skin had died after the bilateral
mastectomy. Dr.
Travis Holcombe, Muriel’s plastic surgeon, reports that the surgery
went well
and feels confident that we are on the road to recovery. We appreciate
your
prayers for complete healing of the chest area. Next
week we will move through various doctor’s appointments, tests and
procedures,
one of which is the port-a-cath. This
port is a small device surgically placed under the skin. It empties
into a
blood vessel and makes it easier to give chemotherapy and to take blood
for
tests. Chemotherapy is still somewhere
in the future, as we have to wait until enough healing has taken place
in the
above-mentioned locations. It
is hard to believe that it is now June when this health
situation
started back in January this year. And yet June has always been
a
special month for us. We were married
on June 3, 1966, so today is our 39th wedding
anniversary! A
happy day at any time and especially now that we have had to make some
very
hard choices as we purposely chose life over any personal sacrifices
breast
cancer has brought into our lives! Back
in June 1967 we arrived in the country of Chile to serve as
mission
volunteers, spending our first wedding anniversary on the mission field. After serving in Chile for close to three
years, we came back to the USA for more schooling.
After
college graduation, the General Board of Global
Ministries of the United Methodist Church hired us in June 1972. After missionary training we were
commissioned and sent to, our now beloved, Mexico where we have had the
privilege of serving for the past 33 years. The last 28 of those 33
years have
been invested in the creation and direction of the “Give Ye Them To
Eat” program
for integrated development for the rural sector of south-central
Mexico. And
the program has a wonderful team of dedicated Christians serving on the
GYTTE
staff who combine social action and evangelism in the Wesleyan
tradition. We
are grateful to God for the guidance, grace and love we have
experienced
throughout our lives and ministry. We
are thankful for dear family and friends who have traveled this road
with us
across the years. And we are so
appreciative of the many generous supporters of the GYTTE program who
make this
outreach ministry possible. Thank
you! Muchas Gracias! In
His Grasp, |
