Aug/12/08 For a now ancient group called The Beatles, this was the date of true old age, and it was one of the nostalgia songs sung by our friends and near-family Jim and Dee Patton with two of their children for my surprise Birthday Party, Saturday 2nd (August 3rd in N.Z.)Surprise it was too! I should have concluded something was [...]
Mar/26/08 New Beginnings 2008 HAPPY RESURRECTION! Apologies to those of you who have looked in vain for some recent update on the blogs since December last year. Your gentle urging to keep you abreast of what we were up to these past few months was appreciated. This entry will cover January through to March.WELL, we just finished Easter week here [...]
Dec/28/09 (From Dee Patton) Fae (Winkie’s wife) just called me...She is tired. Sounds REALLY tired. Yet! There is great victory happening there right now. Winkie is having another CAT scan today even though he was supposed to have to wait for some time since he is not considered in a life threatening situation now. A Doctor was overheard saying as [...]
Dec/12/07 This then is final stretch, heading to year end for us. It is the end to a most amazing year – full of trials and miracles, danger and shelter, crisis and care. Going through some of my old recordings of music ministry in the 60s and 70s in my Revival Reclamation Project, I was touched again by the words [...]
Nov/12/07 Thank you, Lord. As of yesterday I was discharged from the Manukau Surgical Centre, held together with a combination of self-dissolving stitches, a large thin titanium-based mesh reinforcing me inside like some kind of internal body armor and fifty-one tiny staples holding my skin together until it heals. I have had something akin to the equivalent of a free [...]
Oct/31/07 You know we have waited so long for some closure to this constant dealing with the consequence of the critical surgeries done in emergency situations to save my life; the continual battle to avoid system infection from an open wound more than 2-3 inches (6-8 cm) wide and over 8 ½ inches (22 cm) long, the risk of re-rupture [...]
Aug/16/07 Hi friends and prayer support saints around the world –I am now officially another year older with my 63rd birthday the first week of this month. The wonder for which we thank God is that I would have this birthday at all. As one of my cards comments: “Happy Birthday. It is Better Being Over the Hill than Under [...]
Jul/23/07 Meeting with another great Auckland surgeon this past Friday, introduced to us by our friends the Garrets. We appreciate so much both the Garrets and their massive investment in our lives, especially in the early days when I first went into hospital. David helped arrange Faes’ ticket to Korea, sent numerous emails to friends alerting them to my situation [...]
Jul/04/07 It has been a special privilege to have had our son William with us these past two months to help in my recovery process. He has been a signal example of the loving servant heart of Christ to both Fae and I in all that he has contributed to our family. From the time he first made his way [...]
Jul/02/07 Well, the time has come for me to depart for the United States. I have a wedding to attend in California on route to Texas (no, it's not my wedding!), and then it's back to Youth With A Mission Tyler, where I work full time in the video department. Future updates will probably be done by my dad (which [...]
Jul/01/07 Winkie and I met with Dr. John Winsor, recommended gastro-intestinal surgeon and professor of surgery at Auckland University Medical Center. He gave us some interesting news. The first thing he said, is that Winkie is at this time able to use his abdominal muscles! True, they are still separated, and only surgery will correct that, but he said that [...]
