Dear Friends of Bishop John and Elaine Holloway:

I just received this URGENT email from Elaine. We are, apparently, facing a new, critical, and urgent situation.. May all of God's people pray and may "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." May the God of Luke the Physician and the God of all healing mercifully touch and heal our bishop.

"I just talked with the doctor at Emory, they have requested we place Bishop in hospice care. They did an electrocardiogram Wednesday and said the blood clot was still in his heart (we had not been told there was one there) and his heart ejection rate had fallen from 45% (we had not been told that either) to about 15%. They are expecting him to die shortly. This is not the news you want to hear when you get up in the morning."

Please pray and call your deacon, priest, bishop, etc., with this message to pray. Bishop John is in Atlanta's Emory University Hospital Room B568.

The Rev'd Canon David Epps

Canon to the Ordinary, Mid-South Diocese

Rector, Christ the King Church

4881 Highway 34 East

Sharpsburg, GA 30277

770-252-2428 - office

770-252-21-92 - fax

Our prayers are with Bp. Holloway and his family as he prepares to enter from life into Eternal Life.

I pray for peace for all concerned and that the Holloway family experiences the Presence of God during this time.

I pray also for David Epps as he prepares for the next, most difficult stage in his ministry.

Amen! Praying he receives the viaticum for the journey. Having only heard him speak once, I was never really acquainted with him as a person but like most folks in the CEC- he is a good man.