Brothers and Sisters in the Lord,  Greetings from England!

I would very much appreciate your prayers for my mother-in-law who at 94,
following gangrene in one leg, is now faced with a choice of amputation or
gradual death over a few months perhaps if she does not have it.  She
really feels that she has had enough of life now and would like to die.
Her name is Alice Baechtold and she lives in an old peoples home in
Switzerland.

My wife Liselotte is going out to her tomorrow and could do with your
prayers as well in comforting Alice and helping her to make the right
decision.  Please pray for me as I minister to them both in different ways.

We feel that miracles apart, it would be unkind for us to want to hold her
back now in this life and continue to suffer as much as she now does or is
likely to one way or another.  Please pray that her remaining time with us
will be reasonably if not completely painless and also that they will be
happy.

Give thanks to the Lord for her life and all the love she has shown, plus
her tremendous courage in the face of falls in recent years and hip
replacements.  Also that the situation has come to a head just a day before
Liselotte was going in any case and our son Ian-Paul and I are booked to
follow next week.

Thank you all for your love and your help..........ALAN

Give thanks to the Lord forever and ever, call unto him for help and
salvation, give praise halleluia, give praise hallelu, give praise
halleluia, give praise hallelu.

(Words of a "Fisherfolk" song which comes to mind at this most difficult
time for us all as a family).