Prayer Chain for Oliver

This is from my friend, Anne Mathew. After many hours (!) working on the email chain we decided to post here. Please email her if you are interested! Thanks so much for loving us during this time! We leave one week from today...wow...

Brushing teeth at the Children's Museum

Spinning the Wheel at the Children's Museum

Hi everybody!
     I was thinking about how much we all want Oliver's surgery to be a cure for his seizures. I thought it would be great if we could join Andrew and Stephanie in praying for Oliver throughout his surgery. A prayer chain!
     Let me know if you want to participate and I will assign you a 15 minute slot to pray. There will be up to two surgeries. The first will take place from about 8 -12 the morning of Aug 23. At that time they will sew an EEG reader onto Oliver's brain. The readings from this EEG will determine what area of his brain the seizures are coming from. This will determine if he is a candidate for a second surgery, when they would remove the brain tissue that is generating the seizures. The date of the second surgery cannot be determined until some time after the first.
     Here is what I propose. Let me know if you would like to pray during the first surgery (aug 23) or the second (date unknown) I will assign you a number for your day. On the day of the surgery (and the day before for the second one) I'll send out an email telling you when the surgery starts. Take your number and calculate when you should pray. Each person prays for 15 minutes, and we have the entire time of the surgery covered.      If you are number 1 for the 8am surgery, you pray from 8-8:15. If you are number 3, you pray from 8:30-8:45. If you are number ten, you pray from 10:15 til 10:30. That's it!                                                                      
     If you know anyone else who would like to participate, you can forward this letter to them.   If you want to be a part of this, please email me at annemathew@bellsouth.net and let me know which surgery you want to pray during.
     Thanks! Anne Mathew