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.
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.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Lots of rain!
Our flooded front yard
Jake going to save the chickens!
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!
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
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Interesting Photo
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
New Kid's Profile
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.
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.
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