Pastor Jerry Madden

Thanks so much to everyone for your well wishes and expressions of love on my birthday. I truly appreciate your kindness and love.

How I SPENT my birthday!

AJ Update:

Drs did a colonoscopy and endoscopy this morning. She did great! Doc didn’t see anything that she was concerned about in the endoscopy but she biopsied just to be sure theres no inflammation or anything. She wasn’t able to go very far on the colonoscopy, but did not see anything concerning and what she did see. Biopsy just to check for inflammation, etc..

Just as they were putting her to sleep in the OR she screamed out:
I want Chic-Fil-A! Nurses n Drs were rolling.
Hopefully being discharged today.

Quick Madden Update (many have called asking):

-Sunday night AJ was admitted to Greenville Children's Hospital with a severe impaction in her intestines. Her pediatric GI had instructed that she be taken off Miralax, and within seven days she was shut down. Every Dr we have seen since has said: "Why did they take her off Miralax?" So.......
The Drs tried an e***a, but that provided no relief, so she has an NP tube in and is receiving medicine through that to address the issue. Things are moving, just moving slowly. She could be in the hospital several days. She cannot eat, so her discomfort is real.
Please pray for her and Justin & Amber. We believe!

Can't wait to see my family!

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Preparing for Sunday

Message: The Watershed Moment
Mark 8:27-38
And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him. And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.” And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Pastor Bob, playing like only he can at the General Assembly.

I am in good company today!