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Message from    Nathan M Proulx
Please respond by e-mail to nproulx@umich.edu

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                  PRAYER REQUEST
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 David Allen is a young missionary on the Chiang Mai,
 Thailand, mission team.
 He is critically ill with an unknown parasite and
 apparently will die within
 two months unless there is an intervention by the
 Lord. Please help create a
 global blanket of prayer for David, Michelle, and
 their four month old
 daughter, Brianna
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                          From: David Allen

         My condition is quite serious now. The body
 is
 beginning to break down because I have no more fat
 or nutrient reserves. My
 diet consists mostly of vegetable broth, Gatorade,
 and saltine crackers. I
 tried home made bread a few weeks ago, and ended up
 in the emergency room.
        I am in constant pain and have to take pain
 killers regularly. The
 severe diarrhea has continued for 7 weeks and I have
 been in the emergency
 room
 five times. In the last three days there have been
 sharp pains in both of
 my kidneys, so they are now running tests to see if
 my kidneys are infected.
      So far, eight doctors have not been able to
 diagnose the parasites. One
 lab  in Dallas thought they had a positive diagnosis
 (a rare parasite
 called crypto sporidium), but the Public Health
 Center of Disease Control in
 Houston  said it was an incorrect diagnosis. They
 have found two foreign
 agents, but no one has ever seen them before or can
 identify them. One is a
 parasite, and the other looks more like an amoebae.
 One of the effects of
 the
 parasites is to prevent my GI tract from absorbing
 nutrition. The CDC in
 Atlanta is 3-6 months behind, so they cannot help in
 time. My doctors are
 trying
 everyone else. They are in contact with one of the
 top infectious disease
 doctors  in Thailand, and several of the experts
 here in the States. I
 believe that  the pictures of the parasites are to
 be passed around until
 someone can  identify them. I am not doing well. I
 feel like I am in a very
 dark valley right  now.
         I have been praying for so long for help
 with no response, that I
 have become discouraged in prayer. This is a first
 for me in my
 life.Michelle and my parents are being a tremendous
 support for me, butthey
 are having a hard time seeing me suffer so much. My
 prayers now are very
 elemental:   "Father, save me!" But the pain
 continues each day, and I
 continue to lose weight. Please pray not only for my
 body, but for my
 spirit. I have not known fear like this before. I
 don't want to be fearful,
 and I don't need
 to be fearful because I am confident of my
 salvation. I  think my fear is
 related more to the thought of not being with my
 wife and the new baby.
 This was the happiest time in my life before I
 became sick.
                            ***** David Allen  *****

 We are encouraging everyone we know to lift up David
 and his family before
 the Lord of Lords.Please forward his message to
 those you think will join us
 in this global chain of prayer.

 PLEASE CONSIDER THIS REQUEST .............
 THANKS,
                           Viv (and Ted)