Helping orphans, reaching the lost and needy

Sunday, September 27, 2009

T-shirts, get your t-shirts!!


Our co-workers, the Born family, headed back to the States this month till December for a bit of deputation. Jake designed some great t-shirts for them to sell when they speak at different churches. 100% of sales goes to the orphanage. We took hand prints from kids at the Home to put on the back. They cost $20 dollars and are in three color, gray, beige, and dark brown. If you interested in one, email me and I'll try to work out a way for one to get to you.

This is me doing my best "catalogue" pose :0)


.... and on the back, the kid's hand prints

Friday, September 25, 2009

Lots of rain!


Our flooded front yard

Jake going to save the chickens!

Rainy season is starting to come to an end, which means it's not rainy all day long but when it does rain, it is in a huge turrent, it feels a bit like being in a hurricane. The other day the wind started blowing and the rain fell so hard. After about 20 mins the road in front of our house filled up and water started pouring into our yard, pushing our gates open and rushing in (this doesn't happen very often, only a few times before). After this kept up for 10 minutes we go worried about our chickens, who aren't the smartest chickens in the world, they like to stay out in the rain for some reason. So me and Jake waded out to them and sure enough they were up to their chest in rushing water. So I had the fun of chasing them around the coop and handing them to Jake to put up on their nesting boxes to stay dry, quiet the adventure let me tell you! We were both total drenched afterwards..... we need to build our driveway up some more so this doesn't keep happening... The water level comes pretty close to our front door too.


Also, Bible class is going great at the Children's Home, we have it on Tuesday and Fridays. We had 34 children last week, the most so far, we are starting to get a lot more neighborhood kids which is awesome. We just got new benches made, just in time as kids were starting to sit on the concrete floor.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Great News on Dorcas!


We took Dorcas to the clinic yesterday. She had some very nasty stuff coming out of her ear and she has rashes on her body. We also thought it would be a good chance to get her tested for HIV (both her parents died of AIDS). We praise God that the the results came back negative, such a huge blessing! God is so extremly faithful.

So as always it was a long morning, hospitals are never simple here. Here is how the morning went.
1. Got in line to see the receptionist,
2. Went to cashier to pay to register at the clinic,
3. Stood in line to see the one doctor on duty. There was at least 50 people waiting, praise God we got in pretty quick as I know some people there... (it's not what you know... :-)
4. Back to cashier to pay for the tests,
5. Go to see chaplain because it is the policy at the Baptist clinic to send anyone there that has an HIV test (even a two year old).
6. Stood in line at the lab, Dorcas got her blood taken, then we waited outside for the results of white blood count in the sea of people.
7. When back to chaplain again have the AIDS test done there. We praise God that it came back negative!
8. Back to the doctor's office who said that Dorcas has an ear infection and she believes the rash is from malnutrition. She prescribed antibiotics, pain reliever, and some Soybean based cereal,
9. For the third time, go to the cashier to pay for prescriptions
10 Go to the pharmacy hand the book in and waited for them to give the prescription, (about another 40 mins).

All together about an 3 hour ordeal but we came out rejoicing for the good news of Dorcas. She has really changed in the past few weeks, she's gained about 3 pounds, starting to crawl with her feet on the ground, and saying quite a few words. She is just such a happy baby now.

I did find out some interesting HIV information, that 1 out of every 4 babies will contract HIV if their mother is infected, and 1 out of every 8 babies will contract the disease if their infected mother is taking preventive medicine.

Not sure how well you can see this but this is mural that Jenee and Shanel have been working on at the Children's Home. It is just about done and looks amazing. It has Mark 10:14 written on the side, "Let the little Children...." And yes, Jesus is black :-). You should be able to click on it to see it a bit bigger.


Ok, and one last pic of Josh with Dereck and Kingsley. Jake took it today before Bible class, they were all playing out in the grass.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Some pics of the boys

Jude catching a ride from Joseph

Seth catching a ride from Norbert

Josh getting some air on our trampoline

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Interesting Photo


We went for a walk a few weeks back in the beautiful, rolling hills of Bamenda. Look what we found in a puddle on the rocky path, very cool!

Then here's the picture of us at the waterfall, as promised. This was our very rainy hike, but so beautiful non the less!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

New Kid's Profile


This is Dereck, a lovely, very smiley boy. He came to us with a wound on his head (you can still see it) that his relatives told us came from a stone (that's all the info we got). He has settled right in despite the fact he hardly speaks a word of English.


This is beautiful Aruna. He is our only child that still has his mother alive. As a rule we don't except children with a parent still alive but in Aruna's case we made an exception. He comes from a Muslim family, his father had two wives. He father died and so did his step mum, leaving his mother with all of the children, needless to say it was a real struggle for her. Recently she converted to Christianity and has been completely ostracized from the family, receiving absolutely no help. It has been very difficult for all of them. Join us in prayer that she will continue to stay strong in the faith despite all of the persecution she is facing. 


This is Joel, who's parents died when, he was very little. He lived with his uncle, who has struggled to look after him. His English is very good and he is doing great at school, a very smart boy!


This is Sakina, she is of royal blood. Her uncle is the chief of her village. Her parents died a few years back and she has been living with an aunty. The family already has so many other children to look after, it's been very difficult for them to provide for Sakina. She also doesn't speak a word of English and has never been to school before. Godwill, who we first thought was her brother, we have now found out is her second cousin. 





 This is Noel, Meranda's brother, he is very sweet and speaks no English. He loves to play football (soccer for all you Americans) and is fitting in with the other boys really well.


This is Tahirih, she is such a lovely girl. Both her parents died when she was young. The second she came into the home she was already friends with everyone and is right at home already. She is also doing very well at school.
All these Children still need sponsors!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

I have internet!


The net is back up, (at least for now), it has been very frustrating to say the least, I seriously have not spent more than 20 mins on the web in the last month, ahhhhhhhh! 

OK, now that I have got that out of the way.... Things are going great here, our precious children at the Home started school this week, a first for most of them. They are loving it and doing very well. We did have a problem yesterday, I got a call from Jake saying that something had happened to Godwill (one of our new kids) and he was bleeding badly. So I ran up to the school (literally) as fast as I could and they had already taken him to the hospital. So I called Jake back (who was in town) to go to the hospital and see how he was. Poor little Godwill (who is about 5, not sure of his exact age) had gotten caught on a barb wire fence and torn his little ball sac (for lack of a better word) and had to have stitches. Praise God it wasn't too serious and he was home within an hour. He spent the afternoon in bed but was running around with all the other kids today, praise God! Still it was a few anxious minutes when we were trying to find out where he was and what had happened to him.



So since I was talking about Godwill I will put his profile up here first, he is a very sweet little boy. He doesn't speak a word of English and no one else speaks his language (a girl came with him who they told us was his sister but they don't understand each other either so we have our doubts, we are still trying to find out for sure). But he always have a great big smile on his face and you can tell that he is just amazed at everything he sees (he's never been out of the village before). In Bible class when we are all singing and doing actions he just stares at all the kids with an amazed look on his face, so cute! Please continue to pray that he will heal quickly and get back to school next week. 

So I will be getting more profiles up of the new kids, I will try tonight, need to get dinner for everyone right now. 

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

9 more children!


In the last two weeks we've received nine more children into the Home, things have been busy to say the least! The picture above is of Miranda and her baby sister, Dorcas. Both of their parents died of Aids. Dorcas is almost two but much smaller than Jude and painfully skinny. She can't walk, she can only stand with help. She has been really neglected as her sister was the only one really looking after her (she's only eight). Miranda was very weepy the first day or two we got her but has brightened up a lot now, smiling and giving hugs. Dorcas has been eating well and drinking plenty of milk. She is still very vary of anyone but her sister but this will soon change. Please keep these two and all the other children in your prayers. A lot of them are very malnourished and just tiny for their age.

I will be posting pics of each of them sometime this week with a short bio on each. All the children (besides the two babies) will be starting school next week, please pray for a quick adjustment for them all. And of course we need sponsors for all of these new children.