Back On Our Knees for Joey

Friends & Family;

The past 24hrs have seen another downward spiral of our dear friend, Joey Keller's health, and he is back in the Pediatric ICU at Riley Hospital for Children.  According to Nick's (Joey's father) most recent CaringBridge updates this evening, Joey is suffering from a dangerously low sodium level in the brain which is causing bad seizures.  Unfortunately, the seizures then cause the sodium levels to drop further setting up a "vicious spiral" that quickly becomes life-threatening.

It's been one complication after another for them this trip and several other things have gone wrong as well - most significantly, the drug they used to stop the sodium loss seems to be causing some kind of reaction with even more horrible side-effects in this poor little boy.

Our hearts are absolutely broken for all that they're going through.  However, we continue to pray in confidence that he WILL come through this.  We believe very strongly that there have been several indications and confirmations from the Lord that He has a definitely plan for and call upon Joey's life.  Many of us believe that there is a significant spiritual side as well as the obvious physical side to all that's going on.

I've set up a new Round-The-Clock (RTC) Prayer Vigil for Joey beginning now (early Tues morning) and continuing through to Sunday night.

Please join us by going to the following sign-up page to select one or more 1/2-hour time slots when you can pray for Joey, Nick and Elizabeth Keller.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080944ACA62FA20-praying

If you are willing and able to FAST on behalf of Joey as well, we really encourage you to do so along with your prayers.  Remember, fasting doesn't have to mean going without all food.  Fasting is simply sacrificing (doing without) something as a personal discipline in conjunction with your prayers.  Most often it is all food, but could be a single food, or certain kinds of foods, or even something entirely different (such as TV or other media) for a period of time.  It could be a single meal, a day, a week, or a month - that is between you and God.  But we do know that God calls us to fast in Scripture AND that there are certain types of healing that Christ taught only come about through prayer and fasting.

If you have a Facebook account, I've created an "event" for the vigil to get it on your calendar and to be able to communicate with the group in that way here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/292628944180709/?context=create

Please also "like" our permanent "Prayer Team Joey" page here to keep up with future events and stay in touch with other members of the prayer team:

https://www.facebook.com/PrayingForJoeyk 

If you'd like to learn more about Joey and the Kellers and follow their status updates directly, visit Nick's CaringBridge site here:

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/joeykeller

Thank you for keeping up with us (I'll get out a new post on how Daniel is doing soon - but in a word, he's doing great! PTL!! :)

- Tim -