Hey Web, I had never heard of a EFCA church before.... but I read your beliefs and it is a lot like mine :)
I belong to a Congregational Church, United Church of Christ organization. Have you heard of them?
Yes, we have a "Church of Christ" church here in town too.
We are pretty much a "basic faith" kind of church. The Evangelical Free Church doctrine does not differ a lot from a mainstream Baptist or Berean church. The biggest difference is that the "F" stands for "Free". The free part is that we are free to run our local church as we see fit. We do not have to run every decision through a denomination HQ. As long as we stay within Biblical guidelines, we can make our own decisions as a congregation. We can set up our Sunday School classes like we want. We can run our children's ministries like we want. We can use whatever curriculum is best, and we're not limited to a denomination approved list. Etc. I like that.
Web, its funny, no matter how many times you play in front of a crowd, you will always get nervous...that just means you care about what you are doing...if you lose that then worry.
Just got back from the doctor. He said the spider bite is all healed up but the problem is it formed a keloid, which is growing and will continue to grow. He suggests surgery followed immediately by 3 days of radiation to kill off some of the healing cells, then follow-up visits for quite some time to be sure it is healing properly.
For those of you that don't know, a keloid is caused by too many cells rapidly developing to heal cuts, surgical incisions, piercings, etc. A keloid continues growing, causing pain and itchiness because the cells don't know when to stop the healing process and just keep producing scar tissue and healing properties. The doctor says a person's ability to form keloids is genetic. He advised my daughter to not have any elective surgeries, no more piercings of any type, and no tatoos because each will increase the risk of more keloids developing at the site of any of those.
So now we know what's going on with her leg and what they're going to do to try to fix it so it heals properly.
Me too Web. If they're caused by too many healing cells, and they want to do surgery to fix it, I sure hope they're right about radiation treatments killing off some of the cells; otherwise we might be right back in the same boat.
