Kebbi/ Bishop Edmund Update

Our Lay Chair, Keith Malcouronne has continued to correspond with Bishop Edmund and the Royal Surrey hospital in Guildford, endeavouring to facilitate prostate cancer treatment for +Edmund. As one might expect, with Covid travel restrictions and almost overwhelming pressure on most British hospitals, this has not been possible to arrange thus far. However, God is good and +Edmund has shared some encouraging, indeed miraculous, further test results he has received in Nigeria. Here is his most recent email to Keith at the end of January:

“My dear brother Keith,
Good morning. I hope all is well with you. We have been very busy with our various national retreats that we hold at the beginning of the year for bishops, their wives and at the level of the diocese with the clergy and their wives. We thank God that all went well as we took time to review our discipleship strategies again. It was quite revealing as we discovered areas of lapses that we needed to fine tune. Thanks for all your prayer support.
We are following the Covid pandemic development in UK and indeed the whole world. Seeing that it is not abating, I decided to go for Chinese supplements that were recommended for me. Since I started using them I have found from the lab results that my PSA [Prostate-Specific Antigen - Ed.] has dropped remarkably to an unbelievable limit. My doctors now encouraged me to keep using the supplements pending when things will improve in the UK.  And if God decides to use this to heal me we shall praise the Lord.
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Thanks for your prayers and encouragement always I deeply appreciate.
God bless, +Edmund”

If +Edmund will still require surgery or other treatment in England, the estimates Keith has obtained for him from Royal Surrey (which is the specialist cancer centre for our county) range up from £30,000 to £60,000 as a private patient, for specialists not available in Nigeria and a follow-on course of radiotherapy and in-patient accommodation for a month or more due to Covid restrictions meaning he could not stay with any of us privately. The Anglican Communion Office personal emergencies fund has awarded a grant of £10,000 and friends across the Church of Nigeria have raised another £20,000 but there may be more still needed, so please keep open-minded to our Support Appeal. We will keep you informed of developments.

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