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Asbestos disease sufferers united in prayer

byStaff writers
4 December 2013
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Asbestos disease sufferers united in prayer

Young supporter: Lucinda Colbert with her grandfather Ray Colbert , who has asbestos-related disease.

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SUFFERERS of asbestos-related disease came together recently for their 21st annual ecumenical service.

About 160 disease sufferers, their families and friends were at the service in St Stephen’s Cathedral on November 29.

Associate pastor Fr Michael Grace celebrated the service with assistance from the St John’s Anglican Cathedral dean Dr Peter Catt and Albert St Uniting Church superintendent minister Reverend Lyn Burden.

Asbestos-Related Disease Support Society Queensland president Helen Colbert said the theme for the 2013 service was “forever in our hearts”.

“Since the ecumenical service held last November, the society has continued to lose members through asbestos disease and the passing of our members is but a fraction of those lost throughout Queensland and indeed Australia wide,” she said. “This service provides an opportunity to remember those both suffering from and those lost with an asbestos-related disease.”

ARDSSQ secretary Ray Colbert said the society was receiving record registrations.

“Last year we received 124 registrations; so far this year we have had 300,” he said. “Numbers are still growing so asbestos exposure is on the increase, not the decrease.”

Mr Colbert said some of those numbers could be because more people were aware of the problems with asbestos.

“We have wives who realise what their husbands have done on the weekend and ring us and we have to say ‘Yes, he was exposed to asbestos’,” he said.

Mr Colbert said information regarding asbestos was the key to prevention of the disease.

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1. Wise advisors: (From left) Sebastian Rogalski, David Agudelo, Andrew Suffern and Clare Byrne, from Turner Freeman Lawyers, handle many of the asbestos-related disease legal cases.

A liturgy was held for sufferers of asbestos-related diseasde, and for their families

2. Prayerful support: Among those attending the service for sufferers of asbestos-related disease are (from left) Sue Gribble, Keryn O’Neill, Val McDonald and Rob Crear. They who lost their father and husband Ron McDonald, who was a builder, to asbestos-related disease a month ago. Mrs McDonald is also now has an asbestos-related disease from coming in contact with asbestos while washing her husband’s clothes. Photos: Robin Williams

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