Please Pray

I got a phone call a few minutes ago from my friend, Major Patrick McPherson.  Pat is the National Director of the Salvation Army Team Emergency Network (SATERN), and he is in the hospital with "double pneumonia".  They are also checking for heart problems. 

I have been concerned for a week or more when Pat told me that he went for a walk and almost couldn't get home because of coughing and things that were coming up from his lungs.  He went to his doctor who prescribed antibiotics (which apparently didn't help).  He was at Men's Camp last night when he could no longer breathe due to coughing and asked someone to take him to the hospital.  The doctor who checked his lung x-ray asked him how long he'd been smoking.  When he said he didn't, the doc asked when he had quit.  Pat has never smoked a day in his life! 

Pat is only 60 and needs our prayers.  He is diabetic and has stage 3 kidney disease.  He has worked to lose a lot of weight over the last six months and is now afraid for his life.  Major Pat McPherson is a very, very dear friend of mine.  Please pray for him and put him on every prayer chain you may have.  He is a minister of the Gospel and has done much good for "the least of these [our] brethren" in his work with Salvation Army's Emergency Disaster Services over a lot of years.  Now it is time for us to help him.

Thanks.