Ellen Dickenson, a long time member of the Emmaus community, is continuing her battle with brain cancer. She is not in my (Susan Chaney) home and I am looking for people in the Emmaus family who would volunteer to spend time with her each day while I go to school and teach. We are looking for people in Donelson, Hermitage, and Mt. Juliet area. We will need volunteers as of Sept. 8, 2009 for about 6 weeks. Any help anyone can give will be greatly appreciated. Please contact me at 615-477-5947. 8/29/09 Update Ellen has moved to the Chicago area to live with her sister and continue cancer treatments at Northwestern. Let's shower Ellen with lots of Agape love...cards and words of encouragement. Her address is Ellen Dickenson c/o Mary Henderson, 4040 Whispering Trailes Drive, Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60192. You can alos receive updates about Ellen and leave her mesages on her Caringbridge site www.caringbridge.org/visit/ellendickenson 9/30/09

Clyde Simpson has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He's undergoing intense chemo treatments with side effects. Please pray. 8/14/09

Rachel Portney, 22 year old daughter of Angela Hayes' friend Mike in Philadelphia, hospitalized in ICU from complications related to extreme anorexia. 8/4/09