About this episode

Dr. David Petts reflects on his health challenges and experiences after returning from India, including the struggles faced by his late wife Eileen.

My Story Talk 34 Overcoming New Challenges Welcome to Talk 34 in our series where I'm reflecting on God's goodness to me throughout my life. Last time I was mentioning some of the health challenges I faced in India and today I will be describing how these continued for some time once we were back in England. I will also be talking about the serious health challenges Eileen faced during the last ten years of her life. I take no pleasure in recording all this, but an honest account of my life must include the hard times as well as the good, and, of course, the Lord has brought me through. Challenges following India Fortunately, there was little in my diary for the first few weeks after our return from India and I soon began to feel better. I thought I was back to normal and in April we set off for two weekends of ministry in Essex. We would stay with Eileen's sister Joan in Billericay and the first weekend I would preach in Witham and a week later in our old church in Colchester. On the first Saturday we drove from our home in Paignton straight to Witham, a journey of about 250 miles, and I preached in the afternoon and evening meetings. We then made our way to Billericay…

People in this episode

Host: Dr David Petts

Topics covered

• personal story
• health challenges
• faith
• overcoming adversity
• ministry
• reflections on life

Keywords

• health challenges
• India
• ministry
• faith
• personal story
• Eileen
• overcoming adversity

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Places: India, England, Essex, Billericay, Witham, Colchester, Paignton

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