Diane

Diane's daughter, Adriene and I keep dreaming about going to India to implement a development project we've been working on, but she keeps telling me - give me a few years, Mel. First, I need to go home to Portland for a little while. I never asked why.

Today Adriene told me why - "My mom is terminal, Mel."

Diane is the mother of 4 children of which the oldest (Adriene) is only 26. Diane has been diagnosed with ALS - Lou Gehrigs Disease - at the age of 47. Adriene explained to me that patients with ALS are expected to live 1-2 years from the time of diagnosis. I didn't ask when she was diagnosed.


Adriene just wants to be home to take care of her mom, but her mother wants that she finish her MPH. Therefore, Adriene is currently taking 6 classes in Pittsburgh, doing an internship in Baltimore, and writing her thesis. Yet she still has the best laugh of everyone I've met in graduate school. Amazing.

I don't know if Diane or Adriene have a relationship with Jesus.

Please pray for them.... healing, salvation, intimacy with Jesus, the joy of knowing Christ, his comfort, and HOPE. The gammut. Pray that perhaps Adriene would indeed be able to go to India someday ... to share the love of Christ.

"For God so loved Diane and Adriene, that He gave his one and only son, so that if they believed in Him, they would not perish, but have eternal life." John 3:16