Please pray for Godwill!

We have a prayer request to share with you. Godwill, one of the children at Helping Hands Children's Home, was admitted into hospital today, Just over a month ago the side of his face started swelling. We took him to a dentist who pulled a tooth. The swelling went down a little after a few days. It started to bulge again after another two weeks but he said it wasn’t painful. We took him to a different dentist who said his teeth were fine but that he had a small infection so he was put on antibiotics. But still the swelling didn’t go down so we finally decided to take Godwill up to the Baptist hospital today where an American Doctor works. The doctor straight away diagnostic it as a tumor, Burkitt's Lymphoma, a cancer caused by the malaria parasite. He said that this type of thing is very common in the villages that Godwill is from and they have a special ward just for it.

He has been admitted into the hopital and will be there for three weeks while he undergoes his first round of chemotherapy. We will have a WON staff with him at all times. The hospital will cover all his medical costs as he is an orphan, a huge blessing! They have already treated over 500 of these cases and are extremly confident that he will make a full recovery. If Godwill was out in the village, he would never have received medical treatment and most likely it would have been fatal. We praise God that He brought little Godwill into our care!

Please join us in praying and believing that Godwill will make a full recovery and that the chemo won't be too hard on his little body. We praise God that He is Jehovah Rapha, the Healer of all our diseases!