Updates:
June 4, 2007: “I feel that I should at least periodically give a report of Mrs. Pack’s overall health condition and progress. This monthly letter seems the best time. Let me begin by stating that I want to be as careful as I possibly can in how I report what is a very complicated process and picture. First, my wife has now been formally ‘at war’ against the huge tumor she has for 39 days. My wife and I think and speak of each day as a single ‘battle,’ with these broken into several of what we call ‘skirmishes.’ At worst, it could be said that Mrs. Pack is ‘holding her own.’ At best, while the developing picture is still inconclusive, we have a variety of reasons to have hope, and this is just based on the ‘sight’ of her condition (II Cor. 5:7), apart from the faith, which is the all-important centerpiece of our thinking! While my wife is certainly thinner, and this can largely be attributed to the highly specialized anti-cancer diet she is on (it has also caused me to lose 10 or 11 pounds I wanted to keep!!), virtually all of the fourteen separate things we monitor could be thought of as presenting encouraging results.
“Speaking personally, I can tell you my wife has demonstrated ‘the heart of a lion’ in the amazing, uncompromising will she brings to a very difficult, very extensive regimen. Further, she is still regularly exercising at a fitness center as part of her regimen—and I can report that she is both eating and sleeping well, and is still feeling no pain of any kind. Finally, she regularly attends services with the brethren at Headquarters.
“Please understand that I cannot yet offer more than this brief description. The next letter may offer greater opportunity to say more—or possibly much more. We will see. Until that time, please continue praying for the woman whose quiet, private service (typing) on your behalf has permitted you to hold in your laps literally millions of words containing the truth of God.”
June 29, 2007: “I promised a brief update on Mrs. Pack’s condition. She could still be described as ‘holding her own’ in what has turned out to be a battle of epic proportion. Of course, in a trial of this duration the war is not only physical, but obviously lapses over into the many spiritual lessons attached to it.
“No matter how long and arduous has been the regimen and process, it seems that the ordeal seems to keep playing out, and playing out, and playing out in a way that does not allow us to yet see what is God’s ‘end game.’ My wife has been exercising as I write, but understand that she is still quite thin and frail. While we are encouraged that her weight loss seems to have slowed, with even a slight gain in her last report over the previous seven days, and even though there are a variety of reasons to be encouraged, the picture is extremely complex because of the nature, size and location of this particular tumor.
“I personally monitor 23 (no longer 14) different aspects of her condition, and this alone probably best tells you how complicated the picture is, and how difficult it is to describe where her condition may be going. Please understand this is all that I can say at this time. And please do continue with your faithful prayers on Mrs. Pack’s behalf, as well as with the wonderful stream of moving, encouraging cards and letters that we receive—all of which my wife reads carefully.
“The whole Church can take heart that there have been two recent dramatic healings among the brethren, so none should doubt God’s power to do this for my wife. In fact, because my wife has battled this general condition for so long, and battled just for basic sleep as well for months, her favorite Psalm has become Psalm 30, and her favorite individual passage is Psalm 4:8. You may wish to read them both. We read them every day, and often more than once.”
A unique, special sermon titled “At the Red Sea” has been posted in which Mr. Pack tells the entire story regarding his wife.