Letters to Andrew: The Clock

Dear Andrew,
   
     Time does not stand still.  In the Land of Leukemia we often feel like time stands still and at the same time it feels like it flies by with a year worth of time passing by with every 24 hours. We have learned though that although time mostly feels like it is standing still the reality is that the sun rises and sets everyday and the world marches on regardless of whatever is happening in your life. I will never forget the moment that this reality hit home for me. We were coming back from one of your early MRI tests. I believe it was within the first 24 hours of being diagnosed. I didn't think too much about it at the time but I did make note in my mind that it was after normal working hours. I looked up as we were going down the now familiar hallway and saw the clock. It was 10:30 at night. I had no idea it was so late. Time was marching on! I began taking pictures of the digital clocks all over the hospital to mark transitional times and moments as we marched along through our new Leukemia Life. The reminder that Time was Not Standing Still.

      This clock is the picture is the first picture I posted on social media. It is the clock that was right beside room 369C which was your home for June and most of July 2014. The experience of time changed the moment that Dr. Smith gave us the official diagnosis of your Leukemia down in the ER. I remember it feeling just like a movie scene when a bomb explodes. Everything seemed to be in a haze and everyone was moving and talking in slow motion. My ears were ringing. All the noise of the ER seemed to go silent yet I was still unable to clearly hear her speak. I could see her lips move but I struggled to hear what she was saying. I caught myself inching closer and closer to her as I strained to hear. I caught myself as I felt like I was almost going to be close enough that our faces would touch. The rest of the day was just like that moment. The only part that I remember clearly is the 30 minutes or so we spent together after I told you the diagnosis. The Land of Leukemia  took on a life and a time of it's own.
    Four years have gone by and we are once again in the time warp of Leukemia as we are Day 5 of 100 into your bone marrow transplant. I pray that we come to know the power, comfort, and focus that comes only from the author and sustainer of time. The Lord God almighty who is the maker of heaven and earth. May your trust in his perfect design for your life grow as your days of suffering bring dark hours of fear, frustration, and despair. I pray you learn by great experience the power and comfort of Christ our savior's presence.

In the hours of pain and sorrow

When the world brings no relief

When the eye is dim and heavy, and the heart oppressed with grief.

While blessings flee, Savior, Lord we trust in Thee.

While blessings flee, Savior, Lord we trust in Thee.

                                                            -Helen Parmlee and Kevin Twit

In Christ,

Daddy

Prayer Report: Lord's Day 17

     I am writing this report on Saturday evening July 28. He is weary and tired but mostly in good spirits. He has made great use of rubber snakes, spiders, and roaches all week but that is a story for another day. The doctors are very pleased with all of Andrew's test results and his over all condition at this point. This has been a big week for Andrew. He completed the most aggressive rounds of chemo therapy he has taken to date. He had a rest day on Tuesday from any treatment and then Wednesday he began his new life. July 25, 2018 became Andrew's transplant birthday or anniversary. We haven't quite decided how we will refer to the day. The transplant went well without any complications. However, starting Thursday afternoon the typical and expected side effects began to develop. He is suffering from the sores that can develop due to excessive mucus. He stopped being able to swallow due to the pain. Thus, he wasn't able to take his medicine nor eat properly. He is now on a pain pump and a feeding tube was inserted Friday evening. He is doing much better now considering the circumstances. He is suffering right now more than he has suffered at any previous time during his four years of treatment but these are very much normal parts of the transplant process. He is medically doing very well at this point.
Prayer Needs:
1) Endurance
2) Protection from Infection. He is in a period of High Risk
3) The grafting of the new bone marrow
4) The recovery of the bone marrow donor

                                                    (He received two bags of bone marrow)

     He was in great spirits and we enjoyed a transplant eve and day with great fellowship between ourselves and our BMT Unit and 3C family. Andrew's new caregivers have given care to him worthy of their own family. Our time of transplant was a time of great joy as well. We were surrounded by the people who have cared for Andrew from the very beginning. They have all "graduated" to new roles since we first met them all back in June and July of 2014. We are thankful now that we "trained" them so well. We truly consider it a great blessing and assurance of God to have the team in place that we have been given. The weekend has come upon us and we had Andrew's first chemo nurse from June 2014 to be on duty tis weekend to give him his special meds. We even had his doctor who ushered us through the failure of his initial treatment back in that summer of 2014. I call her my "calmer" and yes we (or at least me)  do nick-name just about all of our doctors and nurses.  I share this extra information to make the point that since Andrew's relapse in April we have never been without the same people who have cared for Andrew from the very first month of his diagnosis in 2014 till now. If you know anything about hospital life, the you know that it doesn't just happen that way normally. We praise God for all of his care. We miss our girls dearly. He is not even halfway through his initial 30 days. He will be on Day 4 this Lord's Day.

Robin's Journal

Today is Andrew's day of Transplant. So, we introduce a new feature to the blog called Robin's Journal. I hope she will make this a weekly contribution. An expression of the mother's voice and experience. It's a "Labor of Love" experience uniquely by God's design by a mother.

Welcome to Robin's Journal:


One of my favorite passages to read is Psalm 139:13-16, 23-24.  I have always read this as a comfort to myself because I was born with a congenital heart defect (hole in my heart) and had to have open heart surgery when I was four years old and then again almost two years ago while Andrew was still under treatment for Leukemia.   I would question why God allowed this, then I would read Psalm 139 and it would bring great comfort.  Today I read these verses not as a patient but as a mother.  Verse 13 says God formed Andrew’s inward parts.  God knitted him together in my womb.  He knew Andrew would have leukemia.  God isn’t surprised.  He allowed this.  Verse 14 says I praise God because Andrew was fearfully and wonderfully made.  In verse 15 it says “my frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth”.  I remember when Andrew was made.  I know where I was and when he was being formed.  As a mother I have had that great privilege of feeling when Andrew was being formed as I carried him in my womb.  God created Andrew.  Nothing was hidden from God.  Verse 16 says that God has written in His book all the days that were formed for Andrew.  God isn’t surprised by any of this.  He ordained for Andrew to have leukemia and for him to relapse.  He also called Andrew to himself as His child so that Andrew would have a way to fight; a source of strength and power.  Then we come to verses 23-24, “Search me O God and know my heart!  Try me and know my thoughts.  And see if there be any grievous way in me and lead me in the way everlasting”.  I read these 2 verses as a prayer not only for myself but for Andrew as well. 

I love that as we read God’s Word the Holy Spirit breaths new insights for us just when we need them.  Sitting with Andrew 24/7 in the hospital isn’t easy emotionally but there is no place I would rather be.  As his mother this is my great privilege to take care of him physically every single day.  The good, the bad and the ugly or gross.  I’m here for it all.  He won’t let me go too far from him for too long.  Yes, it makes me feel good.  Aren’t we all like that with our Mama.

In Christ’s Love,
Robin (Mama)

Dispatches from Andrew

Tomorrow is Day Zero of Bone Marrow Transplant. So, tonight we did a big podcast talking about what makes the 3C different. This is 10 Minutes but I think you will find it is worth it.

To listen just click HERE

Letters to Andrew: You Have Cancer

The events of June 2, 2014

Dear Andrew,

     "Come here son. Sit up in my lap little man. Andrew, you have cancer. It is called leukemia" I will never forget that moment. You hugged me tight and just cried. You didn't really know what any of it meant but you knew cancer wasn't good and you knew by the way everything was happening throughout the day that something was right.  In that moment you were broken and afraid. All I wanted to do in that moment was to take all your fear away. Even I couldn't imagine just what would be in store for your future. However, I knew that you would be in a fight for your life and the only way to face it was for you to become the man you had to become. I praise God that his work of grace in your life had already begun and you were seemingly already prepared for this battle. Our first 30 minutes of so together after we received your diagnosis will forever be cherished in my memory and heart. There is a bond that men develop when they go through fire of trials together. That day and in those brief moments you became something other than a son to me. There is nothing more special to me than you being my son. However, we became brothers at arms together that day. We formed the bond of men locked together in the arena of battle giving to one another their lives. This is how it happened.
   
    I was in the old field house working at Coach Pickens' old desk when momma text me about your blood test needing to be looked at some more. I am from Memphis and grew up in the shadows of St. Jude hospital. I have heard the stories of leukemia my entire life. I was nervous immediately but I pressed on. When momma called and said we had to take you to Blair Batson for more blood work I knew immediately in my gut why they were wanting more test. I told her to refuse to leave without the Dr telling her if they were testing for leukemia. She called me back and my deepest fear was confirmed. I made my way to the new field house and walked up the tunnel to Coach Pickens' office. I called him in and tried to tell him what was going on.  I'll be frank with you, I couldn't speak through my tears and anguish. I was having such a hard time breathing that he was first afraid that I was having a heart attack. He was the first I told that you may have leukemia. I praise God that he gave me that moment with Pickens to prepare me to function for the rest of the day. I don't think I would have been willing to share it with anyone else at that point but him and I needed to work through it in order to be there for you. So, I left there for the hospital and had that long drive to decide how I would tell you. On this drive after a lot of prayer I was convinced that my instincts were the way to go. To treat you as the little man that you would need to become in order to face this fight. I made up my mind that I would be direct with you. I wouldn't allow people to sugar coat it nor to lie to you about what was wrong. And I would not allow anyone else to tell you but me. So, when the time came I sat you in my lap and told you.

    I share that with you to give you the back story for our first thirty minutes together. The nurse came to take you for X-rays. Today, momma goes with you to almost all of your tests. If you can remember those first days and weeks, then you'll recall that it was me that went with you. We were in this battle together. She put you in a wheelchair and bless her heart. She was so sweet and was trying to be so encouraging. And she was. But you and I were both silent. We looked each other directly in the eyes and just nodded. I kept my hand on your shoulder most of the way but we didn't talk. We had to wait for the X-Ray and whatever test they were running. You were so angry and afraid. You glanced ever so often into my eyes. We would share truth with one another in those moments too deep for words. Your knuckles were completely white from gripping the arms of the wheelchair so tightly. Your entire body was so tense and your breathing so short that I was starting to worry about you passing out from the stress. The nurse came to take you back and away from me for the first time in this process and my breathe was taken away. But then it happened, it was like Rocky taking that last punch before having enough! Your entire body relaxed. You let go of the wheelchair arms and began to breathe. She asked you if you were ready go with her? You simply looked up and said, ok. When you came back out we looked each other in the eyes again. We spoke for the first time. I asked you, "are you alright?" You nodded yes. I followed up with, "are you sure? are you good?" You said, "yes." The nurse returned to get us and I looked at you and said, "Let's Go!"

    Son, this is the moment I knew that God was doing a work in you that was beyond my understanding. In less than hour you had become a man of strength and courage that I couldn't have even dreamed of in that moment. You went from being my "lit'l man" to being a true Lit'l Man. You were eight years old and already more of a man than I had ever dreamed of for myself. You amaze me and continue to amaze me. I praise God for all that he has done in you and for you. I love you. Keep fighting! Don't give up! Fight!

In Christ,
Daddy

Prayer Report: Lord's Day 16

Andrew's first week in the Bone Marrow Unit is coming to a close. It is Saturday afternoon July 21 and he has been sleeping for awhile now. He completed 8 rounds of full body radiation in four days (Tuesday-Friday). They would take him down around 6:30 every morning and then get him for another round at about 1:30 in the afternoon. He would be strapped in his chair some 40+ minutes each time. He began a three day regimen of very high doses of aggressive chemo therapy today. The effects of the chemo have been almost immediate. Fatigue and nausea have been the order of the day but mostly he has just not been feeling well. He will complete his chemo on Monday and will have a rest day on Tuesday. His bone marrow transplant will be on Wednesday July 25.

 We want to be praying for his bone marrow donor  during these days as well.  He has already undergone blood tests and work ups for Andrew. He has had to arrange for personal time to go to the hospital. Answer all types of questions and offer himself up for medical testing. Now, he is preparing to be put to sleep for a surgical procedure to remove some of his bone marrow so that Andrew may have a chance to live. It everyday terms this means they are about to shove a pretty significant needle into the back of his pelvic bone to withdraw his marrow. Andrew has had seemingly countless numbers of these bone marrow tests over the past four years. The entry point of the needle leaves a mark. He has what look like holes all over the back pelvic portion of his back.

He is now entering the days that his immune system is going to start dropping rapidly. He probably is not going to feel good or like himself again for a few weeks. He is entering a time when he will be under a "High Risk" of infection as well as other conditions relating the transplant. All of these conditions can be fatal.

His spirits are genuinely up. The Cards hanging 18 runs on the Cubs definitely helped his feelings. He is bonding with his new nurses as well as missing his 3C nurses. He has loved all of his nurses visiting and the gifts they bring.

Thank you for your prayers. Pray for his stamina and protection. Pray for the procedure and logistics of collecting and delivering the bone marrow. Pray for our family. Pray for wisdom and a swiftness  of mind and talent for all of his doctors and nurses. Pray for healing and longterm survival.

In Christ,
Perry McCall

Dispatches From Andrew: Meet Andrew

The next Episode of the 3C Podcast: "Dispatches from Andrew" is ready. In this episode you will "Meet Andrew" a little bit and hear about some of his favorite foods, music, and movies. We also talk a little bit about Leake Academy!
So, to listen to the next 3C Life Episode just click HERE

Letters to Andrew: I'm Sorry

Dear Andrew,

     Hey Little Man, daddy is so sorry you are having to go through all of this again. I am so sorry that your childhood has been consumed with battling Leukemia. I know you are scared and I also know that you are sick of it. In my mind I have been writing you letters for four years now.  You were so young when you were diagnosed with Leukemia that it was very hard for you understand so many of the things that were happening. It was hard for everyone. Well, the time has come for me to write those letters to you. I am going to write them as if we were still back there in the summer of 2014. I don't want us to lose the memory of the journey we have travelled together as a family.
    I want to start today though by telling you how proud I am of you.  I cannot even imagine how much worse this experience could have been for your momma and me if you're attitude had not been so full of grace, mercy, and courage. I watch you face this is world and your challenges and I am so thankful that you truly are almost everything I am not and was not as a child. You are so gentle and compassionate. You are so caring toward others and especially your family. Of course, you are not perfect for you carry the treasure of Christ in the jar of clay that is your sinful flesh. Yet, the fruit of Christ's Spirit is so graciously in abundance in you that it is overwhelming. We praise God for His grace because we know that this is not a work of your own effort. It is the work of God in you by His grace. Your mom and I are amazed at how courageously you face every challenge. When you have every reason to be afraid and angry you buck up and grind on. You have been that way from the beginning. The part that amazes us the most is that you were never told to be that way. You took this challenge up on your own. It is the work of God's grace.
    The challenge you are facing now with a Bone Marrow Transplant after T-Cell relapse is of course much harder than even what you've already been through. I know you have grasped this because you ain't no rookie and this isn't your first rodeo. We will be with you through every moment of the fight. However, there will be moments when it will be only you and the Lord. I pray that you already understand but I especially pray that you will come to understand through this trial that His presence is the most needed. His power is made perfect in our weakness. He doesn't call upon you to win or be a warrior but to be courageous because He is your warrior. We wish we could just handle it all for you. The truth is that it is better for you that we can't handle it for you. At the end of the day this is your battle and in God's wisdom and grace He has design your life to walk this path. Thus, we know that it is a path the God will walk through with you. Therefore, you remember that He has said that, "He will be with you. That He is your God. That He will strengthen you and help you. That He will uphold you by His righteous right hand." (Isaiah 41:10)  God isn't making lemonade out of a bad situation that has come upon you. No, God has ordered everyday for you as it is for your good and His Glory. So, trust in Him and His steadfast love for His promises are sure and power unmatched. He is the first and best of beings who made you and all things for his glory. So trust Him. Pray for Him to grant you a greater trust when your trust is weak and when your heart is weary. Now, you march on and glorify Him by loving Him and doing what He commands to the praise and glory of His name.
    I love you. Your Momma loves you. Your sisters love you. Your family loves you. Christ's church loves you. Leake Academy loves you. Your 3C nurses and Drs love you. And countless and nameless others love you. So, you fight! You Fight! You are never alone. We will be with you at every step that we can and Christ will be with you always.

In Christ,
Daddy

Dispatches from Andrew

Andrew checked into the Bone Marrow Unit at the University of Mississippi Medical Center on Monday July 16. Today, he has had his first two full body radiation treatments. He is exhausted. We will report more details later. Right now I want to introduce you to our podcast the 3C Life. Our first edition is what we will call "Dispatches from Andrew" and these will be 5 min spots of me interviewing Andrew about his experience so that you can hear from him directly. I have no idea what I am doing so I hope this link will work.


Here  is our first attempt of the 3C Life podcast.

Prayer Report: Lord's Day 14

This coming Sunday, July 8, will mark the 14th Lord's Day of Andrew's relapse. He had experienced 23 Lord's Days in recovery after fighting for 177 Lord's Days through initial diagnosis and treatment. He has been battling Leukemia since June 2, 2014. We count it by Lord's Days for various reasons ranging from practical as well as spiritual. This week he completed his 7th day of Chest radiation. He has handled the treatment pretty well so far. He gets very fatigued very quickly but his nausea has been relatively limited. He will have four more rounds of chest radiation next week ending on Thursday. Monday and Tuesday will be very long and emotional days. He will have his regular radiation and his final rounds of chemo treatments prior to entering the hospital on July 16. He will also be undergoing all sorts of tests and scans in order to make the final evaluations and baselines prior to the transplant. Robin and I will also be having our final preparatory meetings with the doctors. We will be learning the final details plus learning the hard truths about all that can go wrong and signing off on the treatment.

The days are getting longer. The pressure is steadily and slowly building almost imperceptibly. He is becoming more anxious and we are growing steadily more tense. However, the pressures and strains of these past four years and recent days are a refining fire of our Lord. His grace is sufficient. We have recognized how our spiritual vitality as a family and home as wained over the past year. Our repentance has brought great renewal as the sweetness of His grace has been given and is continuing to be given in abundance.

Prayer Needs:
Andrew's Resilience both spiritual and physical
Andrew's body will continue to handle the radiation
The Doctor's and staff as they prepare.
Our Girls and their resilience and protection
Our logistical preparations
Our vehicles and travel safety
Carolina and Carthage Presbyterian Churches.

In Christ,
Perry McCall

HERE  is a link to Andrew's CaringBridge page.

Welcome: Back to the Beginning

Welcome to our new blog for Andrew McCall and his battle with High-Risk T-Cell ALL Leukemia. This battle began June 2, 2014. The journey has been long and winding and we are all weary and weak. Andrew completed his initial 3 plus years of treatment only to relapse with his diagnosis being on April 4, 2018. Andrew is about to have a Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) on July 25th and he is in the process of the final treatments and preparations. We are dedicating this blog to the telling of his entire story as well as the chronicling of his continuing battle. He will be admitted into the BMT
Unit at The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) under the care of Blair Batson's Children's Oncology Team (Cancer Clinic). He will be in basic isolation/sequester from the public in some form or another until the first of November. We will give report dispatches,  journal posts, podcasts and letters. We will communicate to the world as a family as well as from Andrew himself.

We will begin with a repost of the first CaringBridge Reports from June 2014:
                                                                                                                                                                   
June 3, 2014 
24 Hours Down...A Lifetime to Go!
By: Robin McCall

Today has been a continuation of information and tests. We are still waiting for the full diagnosis. Andrew is in great spirits and has many visitors. He is enjoying his Whoopee Cushion with every new nurse or hospital staff. He acts just like his mother! Thank you for the prayers. We will keep this updated and posted!

Praise God from Whom All blessings Flow! Jesus is the Cornerstone of the body of Christ, Our salvation, and Our lives!

June 6, 2014

Where we are right now in the process
By: Robin McCall

Andrew had his 1st chemo meds on June 4th. That was considered day one.  The first phase of treatment is called the induction phase and that will last 29 days. We will have at least 14 days in the hospital. They will evaluate him then to see if he can go home. When we do go home we will have to come back down to Jackson for outpatient  treatments.
That is what is taking place right now. There are so many little details to all of this that no one wants to here. This is not fun, but we try to not be doom and gloom all the time. Andrew loves to laugh and joke around and he has been doing that with everyone. This is hard and even devastating, but I try to see some positives to each day. God is blessing us through the storm!!  My baby boy, who is turning into my big man hero right before my eyes, is stronger than us all! 

If you want to know how we are doing, I can say that we are not "keeping" as they say in Scotland  but rather we are "being kept" by the maker of heaven and earth, The Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come! 

This is Andrew's mom Robin. May God bless each and every one of you!! 
Isaiah 41:10

June 9, 2014

Starting from the Beginning!!!

By: Robin McCall

How did we know he was sick?  When and Why did we take him to the Dr.?  These are some of the questions we have been asked so I thought I would start at the beginning and tell you the whole story.  

Andrew was at the end of his baseball season and because of some rained out games and a tournament we played about 7 games in a little over a week.  The last game we had in this time period he complained of being tired and having trouble breathing while playing.  I just thought he was tired from playing all the games plus we had been to the pool.  I thought his breathing was athletic induced.  Then he started running fever, a high fever of 104.9 at one point.  So on Friday May 23rd I took him to the Dr. and he tested positive for strep.  They gave him meds and thought all would be fine.  All that week while he was on antibiotics he continued to run fever off and on and was uncharacteristically tired.  We played one more baseball game on May 30th and he was not feeling good at that game at all.  We had about decided that he had mono from his symptoms.  So on Monday June 2 I took him back to the Dr.  They did blood work and a chest X-ray.  We waited a long time.  While we were waiting Andrew said to me that this is not normal.  To which I relied no its not.  The dr. came in with an envelope of his lab results and chest X-ray and asked me if I could take him to the ER at Blair E. Batson.  I asked "right now"?  He said yes they were waiting on us.  I knew then that this was serious.  

At the ER they reran all the blood test again and the chest X-ray again.  We waited a while longer.  Then we had one of the hemotology Dr.'s take us out away from Andrew and told us she was sorry but it looked like it was cancer.  At that moment I could have melted into the floor.  I just walked to the bathroom and had a cry.  Perry and I decided to tell Andrew then.  He is a smart 8 year old who was scared and needed to know what was going on.  So Perry told our 8 year old son that he had cancer.  He immediately Hugged his daddy and started crying.  This broke my heart and I think I did melt into the floor.  After this the Oncology Hematology Dr's came to talk to us and explained to us that it was Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.  At the time we didn't know what type but now we know it is type Tcell ALL.

We were admitted that night, Monday, June 2nd.  We found out Tuesday that he has a mass or collection of Leukemia cells in his chest.  He is a high risk ALL patient.  To spare you all the details this means we will have a long hard road of treatments.  The induction phase will last 29 days, day one was June 4th.  This was his first chemo treatment.  He did very well with this first treatment.  His second treatment was Saturday.  He could have had a very bad allergic reaction to these meds but Praise God he did not.  He will have chemo meds on days 8, 15, 22 and 29.

We are now on day 5 of 29 and it has been a week since the diagnosis.  We are coping.  Taking one day at a time.  Andrew's numbers are coming down and the mass of cells is getting smaller.  We will have a chest X-ray tomorrow to check the progress.  Wednesday will be his next round of chemo.  He will also be having a LP to put meds in his spine Wednesday or Thursday.  

You are now up to day with where we are in our journey.  I will try to update after treatments and/or when there is something that needs praying for or updated.

Now for the emotional part.  This is the hardest thing we have been faced with, but we believe that God has been preparing our hearts for this for years.  No we didn't know this would happen.  In my life God is good, God is sovereign, God is my comforter.  I know in my heart that no matter the outcome of this journey God is still good, God is still sovereign, God is still my all in all.  God will get us through this journey.  My prayer is that I will be a good and faithful servant and show God glorified through my life.  I am sad but I have joy, I am anxious I trust in God's calming peace, I am scared I will give God my fears.  It is Well With My Soul.  This doesn't mean that there aren't bad days, crying, sinful attitudes.  There are.  We have Joyful Suffering!

Pray for Andrew, Pray for us, Pray for our girls, Pray for healing either miraculously or through the meds, Pray the mass will dissappear, Pray for the Doctors, nurses, and all attending to him.  Pray for Andrew as he takes his meds, that the chemo will not cause bad side effects, that the LP won't scare him.  He has had one already and he knows it hurts.  

My son in the past week has become my warrior hero.  He is brave and courageous.  This only has come from the Lord.  God has allowed Andrew peace, distractions, comfort, and love.  He is no longer my little man; he is my brave warrior hero man!

We thank you all for your prayers, calls, messages, acts of love but most of all for your love for my son.  We will praise Him IN the storm!  We are being kept!!  1 Peter 1:3-8

In Christ's Loving Arms,

Robin

                                                                                                                                                                 

I hope this is helpful to those who are new to this story as well as a refresher for all those who have travelled with us from the beginning. We thank each and everyone of you for your constant support. 

In Christ,

Perry McCall