Greetings to all,

Since I told everyone that I should be receiving more information today on the type of cancer I have, I thought I had better get a bit of an update out. As it turns out, we will not know anything today. In fact, it may be another two weeks before we know anything. Evidently, the biopsy that I had Monday needs a second opinion. The pathologist sent a sample off somewhere (I don't know where) to get further analysis. It is supposed to take 7 to 10 days to get the report back and our doctor will not tell us anything until he has all the test results.

One thing I know is that they did not expect this. Therefore, it is likely that the cancer is not of either of the two kinds they suspected (that is, of course, only my speculation). Since both of the cancers they were looking at are of an especially destructive kind, this may actually be good news. Another thing I know: many people are sending up prayers of sweet incense to our Holy Father. No matter what God's final will in all of this (as I told the church Sunday), I expect to see extraordinary things happen during this time. Thank you so much for your prayers.

One interesting event has already happened. We do not pay a lot of attention to attendance at Antioch. We keep attendance roles and records but I often will go many weeks without knowing what our numerical attendance is. However, we have noticed recently that we have been bumping up against 100 on Sunday's but not hitting it. Well, we had a crowd this last Sunday and I purposely checked out the total. As it turns out, for the first time in the 34+ years of the church for a regular service we had over 100. We had 101 to be exact. I count this as God saying, You ain't seen nothing yet. The Lord enabled me to preach a message on "More Than Conquerors." Since I do not see growth of an individual church as the end-all of goals, I believe we will be seeing many kinds of blessings during this time. Keep praying.

By the way, tonight we are officially sending out a man to start the fourth church to be started out of Antioch during the last 21 years. A group of believers in Michigan have joined together and have asked Brother Grady to come and aid them in planting a new church. May the Lord help us to continue to be fruitful and multiply throughout the land and around the world.