Pray for Our Little Ones

Hi folks. Well, I thought it was too good to be true. Our Internet was off for almost a month and we had it back for a whole 6 days! But on Saturday night it was cut off and it hasn't returned. I am back in Manila in an Internet cafe trying to write this very important blog in an environment of very loud heavy music! Aaagghh .. I admit it .... I'm getting old! Please forgive me for any spiling mistakes or bad grandma.

I have some urgent requests for you to pray about ... all concerning kids. Over the last three weeks so many of the kids at Sefton have been so sick. Many in the nursery had severe diarrhea, sickness and fever. Josiah and Jonathan's son Daniel ended up in hospital as well as Karis, a daughter of one of our staff. Then two of our teachers' kids ended up in hospital. So much to take at one time.

And this week has been just as bad. Please pray for the following:


* Mona Lisa - not a pretty picture!

Mary had a very hard day on Tuesday. A mum was brought by the Social Work Department with her two young kids. The mum was mentally unstable and was a manic depressive. She had 6 kids but was not capable of looking after them. When it came time for her to leave she went hysterical and almost broke the little girls arm.

Mona Lisa is a beautiful girl but her mother has tried to cut her her and made a terrible mess. Little Mona Lisa has been on a very poor diet and when Marilyn went to see the home last week her mum was feeding her sand. Hard to believe, but true.

She is VERY malnourished and does not have the will to eat. She is a lovely girl with a beautiful personality. We need her to start eating to have a chance. Please pray.

* Margarita - Dengue fever

Margarita is our oldest child in the Children's Home and she is never ill. But this week she has had high fevers as well as other flu like symptoms. She started having nose bleeds... and we began to worry. Our worst fears were realised when we took her to hospital. She has dengue .. worse than malaria and very serious.

She is in hospital now but her blood platelet levels are dropping. We need you to pray that the Lord would touch her body and that this dengue would disappear.

* July - the rice sack kid!

On Tuesday night I got a call from a member in Nagassican that there was a 4 day old baby there that was almost dead and was convulsing. Pastor Danny ruched there and brought this baby boy to hospital ... all the family had to wrap him in was a rice sack (see picture above). Story is this. This baby was born and the mum could not produce milk. They are very poor, so they went to the little store and bought some packets of Coffee Mate. Yup, that's right. So for four days this baby had water and coffee mate. He dehydrated and almost died.

Thank the Lord we got him to hospital in time. Pastor Danny said that they should name him ... so they called him July! Strange but very Filipino.

PLEASE pray for all these kids and also that all these bouts of illness would go. Pray for our protection. Even for us as a family the last thing we want is for our two kids to catch dengue as it is very serious for western kids if they catch it.

Thanks for standing with us. I am going to Singapore for a conference on Saturday so please pray for Mary and the staff as they minister at Sefton Village.

Be blessed .. and stay healthy!

PS - Thanks to the 35 folk who have signed our guetbook ... but what about the rest of you?? Come on .. it will only take a minute! Thanks ....