Missionary Update - Dennis & Jolaine Thomas

       Starting with an apology for taking a very long time in getting this report to you. So very difficult to talk of 'health' once again, as you can imagine!! Then sudden thoughts that REQUIRE us to stop and PRAISE HIM for all. He has brought us through!!  We had returned from Guatemala after working there for three months. What we thought were complications due to altitude didn't disappear when we returned and was so much more. We were able to be in several churches here in the U.S. and were in the midst of making final appointments in Guyana for the end of Summer and in the process of getting passport renewal. Long difficult times since... in as short a form as possible...
       Dennis was in the hospital bere in Nashville for days to be stable enough for open heart surgery. His LAD (yes, that widow maker) was 100% blocked at the very same place he already had one stent placed inside of another stent! He ended up being a better candidate for robotic bypass surgery using a LIMA Graft. That Left Internal Mammary Artery is already connected to the body's blood supply so one end is left intact while the other end is attached to the LAD bypassing the blockage. His recovery was compliented with days of post-operative delirium and other complications. BUT, after almost 2 weeks in the hospital...we are home, recovering and rehab. Even this is a bit complicated because he has other blockages and more stents necessary in the near future. That Isaiah 46:4 text was truly my comfort through tear filled days. Please, continue to pray for him! Call his name, Dennis! In spite of how devasting and discouraging this is for him... we are so given to Praise, Hope and Plans for the Future!