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Subject: PRAYER


Author:
david (prayer)
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Date Posted: 21:19:36 11/04/09 Wed
Subject : Lord Jesus Christ please help me to further my job contract as I now use a sharp thing to cut into my body in order to keep on praying, pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, a-men.

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Subject: Please pray for Michael Cain


Author:
The O'Connells
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Date Posted: 20:57:40 05/06/09 Wed
Hey guys make sure to lift up Michael Cain in your prayers. He broke his collarbone on Sunday while we were at Cal City. He was riding down the hill behind camp and took a spill. Thank you to Dave K and Dennis E for taking care of him. Let's keep Michael in our prayers as his body heals and pray that the pain continues to be less and less. Thank you!

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Subject: PLEASE PRAY FOR MIKE MARTIN!


Author:
The O'Connells
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Date Posted: 19:14:15 03/22/09 Sun
Please pray for Mike Martin (details below). Mike and his family have always been a huge part of In The Dirt and he needs ALL of our prayers!!

Mike Martin was in a motorcycle accident at Dove Springs on Sat. at 1pm. He is at Loma Linda hospital in ICU and needs our prayers. He has a broken thumb, 2 collapsed lungs, 8 broken ribs, his spleen is torn in 3 places, and 2 broken vertebrae. He has NO paralysis, PRAISE GOD!!! as the broken back is not near his spinal cord. They hope the spleen will heal itself. The major concern today is about internal bleeding. He has tubes in his lungs and a button to control the pain. He has been conscious the whole time, but didn't get any pain medicine until 9pm Sat. night. His church family was at the hospital with him all night. His wife Nicole is asking all of us to do nothing more than to PRAY right now.

We'll post updates as we get them.

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Subject: Brothers business


Author:
Cindy
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Date Posted: 13:15:43 02/19/09 Thu
Please pray for my brother and sister n law for their business. That they will get some jobs this week. Their business is extremely slow.
In Jesus Name

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Subject: Update


Author:
Steve Colburn
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Date Posted: 13:33:15 02/03/09 Tue
I wanted to thank everyone for the prayers and support. I am now home and on the road to recovery. It will take a few weeks to get my strength back but it is great to be home. Thank you for all of the cards and pictures. The frame is great and now rolling in my home. I will know if the procedure is working in the next 6-8 weeks, but for now I am planning on living for many many more years.

Joni and I are hoping to make the March ITD ride. God Bless and hope to see you all soon.

The Colburns.

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Subject: Please Pray for Dave Kearley


Author:
The O'Connells
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Date Posted: 13:09:07 01/19/09 Mon
We are asking you all to join us in prayer right now for Dave Kearley. He was taken to the hospital this morning with a serious staph infection. There is limited information at this time but he is in need of all our prayers. If you have any questions or concerns we are asking you to direct them to the Northrups 949-455-7355. We will continue to update you as information comes our way. Again, please be praying for Dave that God will heal his body from the infection!

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Subject: Steve Colburn


Author:
The O'Connells
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Date Posted: 15:02:54 01/05/09 Mon
In The Dirt Family...please join with us in continuing to pray for Steve, Joni, Faith, and Grace Colburn!

Here is Steve's schedule for the next couple of weeks and things we can be praying for:

January 11th - Steve checks into the hospital in Maryland

January 12th - testing all day

Starting January 13th - he begins what they call "immune depletion therapy" this is basically a week of intense chemotherapy to try and kill of his white blood cells and reduce his immune system to nothing. The next 10-14 days he will be injected with the cells they have been growing along with the immune booster they have been growing the cells with. The immune booster is call Interleukin II, and is supposed to make chemo seem like a walk in the park.

Steve is hoping to be home by Feb. 4th, Joni's birthday. For the last month his health has not been very good, the tumors in his neck and throat have become increasingly painful and they effect his ability to breath at times.

The bottom line is this - starting Jan. 13th he needs our prayers! He really fells like it is time to dig his heals in to get ready to battle. This procedure is HUGE, please pray for Joni and Steve as they pray and believe that this procedure will be successful and start to shrink his tumors. As Steve said..."We know God has a plan for my life, we are praying that his plan includes many many more years with my girls!"

We love you Colburn family and are praying for you without ceasing!

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Subject: Steve Colburn update


Author:
The O'Connell's
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Date Posted: 17:49:59 11/25/08 Tue
This just in from the Colburn camp.....

Hi guys- I'm told things went well! Thanks for all your prayers. The doctors said everything went smoothly and it was pretty uneventful- (which we like!) :-) They feel like they got enough, but will not know for sure until after a couple of weeks of "harvesting." Steve is still resting, but there seems to be no damage to his muscles..praise God! As we know more, we'll keep you posted.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving! We all have so much to be thankful for this year!

All our love- Steve & Joni

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Subject: Steve Colburn Update


Author:
The O'Connell's
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Date Posted: 10:54:09 11/19/08 Wed
Hello All,

I am very very happy to report that I have been accepted to he trial at the National Institutes of Health. (NIH) The cancer research division is considered the best cancer center in the country and most likely in the world. I feel very confident that the care I will be receiving their will be the most beneficial in helping me beat this. Oh, and just in case I was not clear last time - I Will Beat This!!! I feel very confident God is giving me a second chance to get it right and I plan on taking advantage of it. Just in case you are not clear on what I will be doing at NIH I have attached my prior detailed email below. I should be heading to Maryland next week for surgery to remove several tumors. This should only be a 2-3 day trip with surgery lasting only 2-4 hours. (My third of this type)

Thank you all for your prayers and support.

God Bless,

Steve,

PS - Sorry for the delay in getting out the next chapter in my reflections, life has been a little crazy back with Joni and the Kids. I have two that are 80 to 90% done and hope to get something out this week.

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Subject: Please Pray for the Colburns


Author:
The O'Connells
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Date Posted: 09:35:47 11/07/08 Fri
Here is a letter from Steve as an update of where he stands now and what we can be praying for! Please keep not only Steve in your prayers, but the medical staff that is assisting them in this decision and his girls, Joni, Faith, and Grace!

Deuteronomy 20:4 "For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."

Pray for victory for Steve!

Hi friends,


I just got back from 7 hours at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) AKA National Cancer Institute. First off, if this is any representation of how a government controlled medical facilities runs then I am 100% for it. I have never been to a more efficient and pleasant medical facility in my life. I have been to very nice hotels that did not offer the service that this place did.

I will try to condense 7 hours of meetings into a a paragraph or two. I will not know the next step until sometime next week but here is what I did learn. I will either get admitted to the study right now or I will have to try one more treatment before moving on to the NIH. The normal protocol is to start with a treatment called IL2 or Interleukin 2. It is a very toxic immunity booster that is 10X as potent as normal chemo. The procedure would be done at a major medical center like UCLA or the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. It would be a week in the Hospital ICU then a week at home then a week back in ICU, followed by a month at home. This routine would then be repeated over if successful. This is a very accepted protocol but only works 5 to 8% of the time. If this is the route they want me to go then the procedures could start within the next week or so. The procedure has a very low success rate but when it does work it is a home run as close to a cure as there is for cancer.

Option 2 would be done at the NIH and is a process called Till, (T-cell immune ____ ____?) this is the removal of cancer tumors, the cells are separated and the healthy cells fighting the cancer are removed and then grown from a few thousand to several billion over 6-8 weeks. They take about 1cm of material and turn it into about 50 gallons of treatment that will be injected back into me. They use the same IL2 in option one to grow these cells and boost my immune system. If they decide to go with this option, I will go back in the next week or so to have a few tumors removed, I will then go back in about 6-8 weeks for three weeks of intense treatment. The first week I will get chemo every day in order to totally suppress my immune system and kill 100% of my white blood cells. Over the next 2 weeks I will get injected three times a day with the new "Super Charged" t-cells combined with the IL2. I will then go home and know in about 30 days if it works. Here are the odds on this treatment - There is a 50 to 60% chance that the tumors they remove will contain enough of the good t-cells to proceed further. The odds of this procedure shrinking the tumors at least 30% (how they define success) is about 50%. A couple of other figures - about one percent of the patients that under go this procedure develop severe side affects that normally result in death. If they cannot get enough tumors near the surface then they will have to cut them out from under and intertwined with my peck muscles. Because this area carries all of the blood vessels to my left arm, This means I will most likely lose some motion and control of the arm and worst case, the arm would have be removed down the road.

So once again we wait for the NIH to recommend the next course of action. The bottom-line is I am not sure which is the best way to go, we leave this problem up to God, he will make it clear what is the best for us. If it is option 1, we pray that I am one of the 5%, after all Joni thinks I am one in a million, or was that one in a hundred? If it is option 2, we first pray that they can easily harvest enough cells so that they do not have to go into my muscle, Next that I am not in the 1% that does not make it. (this point is rather important) Next that the three week process goes smoothly and I recover fast.. Lastly that I am in the 50% that have at least 30% shrinkage in my tumors, I am voting for 100% shrinkage, so I can be around another 44 years to keep my wife inline. Either way I feel great because God has a plan. A great plan for my life.

God Bless,

Steve

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Subject: Pray for Baby Jared Kearley


Author:
The O'Connells
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Date Posted: 13:37:18 11/05/08 Wed
Please pray for the Kearley family as Lisa has a scheduled C-section for baby Jared Friday morning at 7am! We can't wait to meet the newest memeber of the ITD Crew!

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Subject: Jaime Warren


Author:
Michelle Peltzer
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Date Posted: 08:11:26 10/17/08 Fri
Please pray for Jaime Warren. She is Pastor Rick's Daughter-in-law. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor and has had several surgeries this week. Her life is truly in danger. She has a 3 month old son Cole.

Thank you!

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Subject: A Call to Prayer


Author:
Dan O
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Date Posted: 21:15:25 10/08/08 Wed
Dear ITD Family, this is a call to prayer. Steve Colburn has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Please read the Email below for a more in depth look than I could ever provide. For those that don’t know Steve, his wife Joni and their daughters Faith and Grace, they have been a part of ITD since the early days. They left last year to South Carolina following where God was leading. The Colburn family have always been a positive influence, a Godly family role model and are missed deeply at the campfire. As you read Steve’s latest update, I pray that if you are able to help in any way, that you wouldn’t hesitate. The other request that I have is that we all pray. Pray for Gods divine intervention and pray that this treatment works for Steve.
I have known Steve for 3 years now, have ridden and camped with him and his family and our families have been in a family Bible study together. Two things I have always truly admired Steve for are his commitment to his family and his faith. He has a faith in God bigger than anyone I have ever met. Steve will be with us this weekend out at Cougar Buttes, take some time to talk to him and you will see. We all know that our God is an awesome God and that a chord of three strands isn’t easily broken. Prayer is a powerful thing and with the love of this ITD community and the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, I know that miracles will happen.
Thank you all,
Dan O’Connell


First off let me thank everyone for all of your prayers and support. I meet with the specialist at UCLA today and here is the summary of what he said. There is no FDA approved drugs that can really help me or extend my life. He is currently doing a new study where he would inject me with a high dosage of "protein" directly into my lymph nodes. This should boost my immune system and help in killing off the cancer cells. The study has only been around about 3 months and only has 5 patients (AKA lab rats) the one patient that has been in the study for all 3 months is doing very very well and the other 4 have all been in the study for less then 2 months and still to early tell if it is working. He is optimistic but in a trial like this a 5 to 10% long term success rate is typical. The great thing about this type of procedure is that it does not currently seem to have the side effects like the Chemo does. I had a blood test today to find out if I have the right type of proteins for this study, if I pass this test then I have to go in for a very very through physical and more testing. If that goes well, I should be starting this new treatment in a couple of weeks.

If this does not work or only works marginally, I will be off to Bethesda, Maryland to get in a trial under the leading cancer specialist in the world. That process is very very intense and would mean me being in the hospital in the ICC unit 2 weeks of every month. The doctor told me that this process is 10x more toxic then my past chemo treatment.

He thinks my natural immune system is doing a good job fighting the cancer and he is optimistic. (as much as you can be when dealing with stage 4 terminal cancer)

Many of you have asked what you can do for us. The primary thing is continued prayer, specifically that I will pass all of these test and can get in this study. Next that this new "protein" injections will work for me. I am not sure if this process will help save my life but I am praying that by my agreeing to be part of the study, it will in someway help others beat this disease in the future. Finally please pray for Joni and the girls as I will have limited opportunities to be home with them. My absence puts even more pressure and strain on Joni. She already has a very full plate with running her new business and taking care of the kids and trying to support me.

I am also hoping I can get a few of you to volunteer an extra room so I could stay with you for a week every month or so for the next few months. I am trying to avoid renting a place of my own so that I can use those funds for airline tickets to go home and see my girls. Hopefully once a month. I was thinking if I could get a few people that would be open to this, then I could just stay a week at a time so that it would not be to big of a burden for any one.

I am also looking for any discount airline vouchers that someone may have that they would be willing to sell. I know that it may be a long shot but I also know that many of you are looking for a tangible way you can help. More importantly, I have learned that I need to ask for help, I cannot and have not made it this far on my on. At times like this you really appreciate the people in your life and the relationship you have with them. I am learning that you can lose many things in life, health, money and material possessions, but your relationship with God and others around you cannot be taken from you. I hope in the days to come that you will take an extra minute and tell those around you how much you love them and how much you appreciate them. Let me start, If you are getting this email it means you hold a very special place in Joni and I's heart. I know I speak for both of us when I say we love you guys and really appreciate you.

We know God has a plan for my life and only he knows how many days I have left. This is not the path I would have chosen for my life but I know with Gods help and the support from people like you, my family and I will get through this.



God Bless and thank you,

Steve Colburn

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Subject: prayer for my nephew


Author:
Chad Hegreberg
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Date Posted: 17:59:27 08/14/08 Thu
My nephew Matt in Minnesota was taken to the hospital for a lump in his neck. Its a cancerous tumer that goes down to the bottom of his lung. They are still doing tests to find out what kind and what can be done. please pray. Thanks Chad

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Subject: Prayer for family friend


Author:
Lisa Kearley
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Date Posted: 19:08:54 08/28/08 Thu
I have a close family friend whose brother fell face first off his ATV up in Reno this past weekend. He is in an induced coma and already has had surgery to relieve the pressure in his brain. His family is with him as they pray for positive responses, answers and a healthy turn-around. My request is for you to pray for the same. God's work in this is that through this tragedy his sister (my family friend) is now speaking with her daughter that she's been estranged from for awhile now. Will keep you posted as I learn more. Thanks in advance for your care, concern and prayers.

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Subject: Praying for all of you!


Author:
The O'Connells
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Date Posted: 08:26:32 08/08/08 Fri
We are praying for all of you and our new season!

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