Christian evangelist Luis Palau, who has preached across the globe for five decades, says he has late-stage lung cancer.
“Everything is ready and if the Lord wants to take me home in the next few months or two years or whatever it is, I’m ready,” Palau, 83, said in a video recorded with his sons Kevin and Andrew and uploaded to YouTube.
The Argentine-born preacher, who moved to Oregon in his 20s and is based in the Portland area, said he noticed symptoms in November but thought they might indicate pneumonia until doctors ran tests.
“Just this week it was clearly confirmed. Stage 4 lung cancer,” he said in a statement posted Thursday (Jan. 18) on the Luis Palau Association website. “As you can imagine, this isn’t news we were expecting or hoping for. Yet our trust in the Lord remains rock solid.”
Palau said he currently feels “fine” and is full of energy and asked for prayers as he and his family face treatment decisions that he expects will limit his preaching and traveling schedule.
But he said he remains confident in the longevity of his ministry, which includes his son Kevin as president, son Andrew as an evangelist and son Keith on the development team.
Palau and his team have preached in hundreds of cities, from Washington to London to his native Buenos Aires. His ministry has put a new spin on more traditional crusades, incorporating extreme…
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