Just in case anyone wants to know what Crohn's Disease is like for Mary. Another person wrote the best I have read in 38 years. "Crohn’s disease, the pain is like someone punching their fist through your abdomen, grabbing a handful of your intestines, and ripping them out or rearranging them inside your body. Pure agony, makes you scream and contort your body in weird positions just for the slightest relief… but there is none. It is blindingly painful. I can remember times just rocking back and forth, doubled over, screaming bloody murder into a pillow. Couple that with the constant nausea and vomiting, inability to eat anything, the weight loss and muscle weakness. I can see why the writer for the Alien movie used his personal experience with crohns as the inspiration for the chest bursting scene. If you can imagine what it would feel like to have an alien inside you moving around and ripping through your organs, that is what crohns feels like."

Hello Raintree Christian Church, The National Day of Prayer theme for 2024 is ‘Lift Up the Word – Light Up the World.’ To end the year ahead of Christmas, will you please share this prayer with your prayer team and church to Light Up China on Christmas Day? Thank You! Harry Gibbons A PRAYER FOR BOLDNESS: Heavenly Father, we pray that You will stretch out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus, to Light Up China on Christmas Day with the Light of Christ to the 1.3 billion who live in spiritual darkness, and do not know Him. We also pray the news of these notable miracles by You will spread throughout China in every tribe, province, city, and municipality—to give the persecuted church in China boldness to preach the gospel with the Christmas Story, for a great China harvest. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. Acts 4:16; 29-31