If you are sick of hearing about malaria in our updates we are definitely sick of having malaria. At present, Donna and I (Paul) have not been able to kill off the parasite, Fiona Kennedy (one of our fellow TWR colleagues) and her son Daniel also has malaria. I have been through all the “nicer” malaria treatments and I am now on a week’s course of quinine, which can have some very serious side effects. So far, my side effects have not been too miserable, for which I praise God. Donna, Fiona and Daniel are on a treatment course with “nicer” side effects. First we would covet your prayer concerning our attitudes and hearts. Pray that we would not become discouraged and forget that our lives are in God hands for His glory, which can be shown through grace in illness just as much through healing. In this same vein, pray that our hearts would fully trust in Him and remain tender. Second we would covet your prayers for physical healing and spiritual protection. Pray that medicine being taken would kill the malaria parasite with minimal side effects.
Thank you for your prayers for my trip to Cotonou during the first week of February. Praise God with us that He granted the team a spirit of unity with some positive meetings and contacts. Unfortunately, my malaria hit a high during this week and I spent one day in bed and another team member had a nasty cold and spent a good part of day in bed. There is positive progress on the short wave license, however there is one area of concern, and the NGO status requires some more paper work. Praise God for the positive progress. Pray that God would give TWR wisdom with the area of concern on the shortwave license and in the paper work for the NGO status.