Greetings to you all. We arrived safe and sound in the States a little over three weeks ago and had an opportunity to visit with Joyce’s mom and dad in the Orlando area. It was good to see them. Her Dad is requiring further surgery this week to repair a hip replacement that he had done a couple of months ago, so please keep him in your prayers. Our oldest daughter Rachel came down to Florida for a long weekend and it was great to have the time with her there.
The Lord opened opportunities for me to speak, at the assembly in Lake Howell, as well has Clermont and Hiawassa Bible Chapel. Then our last Wednesday night was spent with the saints at Satellite Beach. It was so exciting to us to realize just how many folks visit the web site and are keeping up with the Lords work in the Philippines. It is such and encouragement to know that so many have been praying for us, which explains the blessing we have been enjoying over this past year. Thank you all so much for your encouragement while we were with you.
We completed a weekend conference yesterday at Branford Bible Chapel in Connecticut. What a time of personal blessing for me. I so much enjoyed the fellowship of the saints there and they encouraged our hearts in the things of the Lord. Thank you all so much!! We did not realize just how much we missed all of you.
Currently we are at CMML in New Jersey. Our daughter Kim and her husband and the grandkids are down for a short visit to the New Jersey area before heading out to the Philippines with us in July. They will be beginning a work for the Lord at Faith Academy as dorm parents for high school boys starting at the beginning of the next school year. Keep the Keating family in your prayers as they begin this new venture for the Lord. They become the fourth generation from the “Brooks Family” to serve the Lord in the Philippines. What a wonderful blessing to realize God’s grace and faithfulness.
Joyce is doing well, she is had been experiencing some side effects from the Tamoxifen she has been taking for her cancer. But recently those side effects seem to have dissipated, so she is doing much better.
I have a couple more meeting in Connecticut before heading up to Rochester, New York for a wedding and then on to Chicago for about three weeks before heading back to the Philippines on the 15th of July. Joyce’s surgery will be on the 25th. The recovery period is between six and eight weeks so we would certainly appreciate your prayers. We hope to head back up to the mountains for a brief visit before the surgery, then return home as soon as the doctors give their permission for her to travel.
Thank you all once again for your faithfulness to the Lord and to us. Your love and prayers have blessed us and encouraged us.
