Keep our friends Karina and Gato in your prayers please. Got a call from Gato that Karina went into labor this morning. So I just took them and dropped them off at the hospital. It brought back some sad memories.
About 15 months ago, I got a similar call from them. Karina's water had broke and they needed us to take them to the hospital about 40 minutes away. So off we went to Tena, and I dropped them off just like today.
The next morning very early we received another call that her baby had been born dead. They asked us to come to the hospital and when we arrived we found out that the baby was in fact alive but not doing well. As most of you know, Gato and Karina ended up signing the baby over to Bless an Orphan so it would at least have a chance of living. The baby was taken to a hospital in Shell about 2 hrs away. He lived for a few weeks, but then couldn't make it any longer.
Today as I dropped them off, I could see tears in Karinas eye's as she too was in remembrance of the birth from the months before. We told her not to worry, that everything would be ok, and many many people would be praying for her and this new baby coming very soon. So, please join me in prayer for her and her family as she in now in labor in the same hospital as before.
Update: Just wanted to share with you what happened this weekend after the man passed away from a dog bite.
We received another call that there had been another death the very next day from this mans passing. Thomas arrived at the house and knew the family that lived there. The death was of a 9 month old baby boy. The day before, he had started with diarrhea and vomiting, and then in the evening he started having a high fever. At about 3:00 in the morning on sunday, he passed away. All he needed was some antibiotics and he would still be living today. The parents are only children themselves having only 16 years each.
Please keep these families in your prayers, and us too as we receive phone calls during all hours of the day and night from people in need. The needs of them are many. Sometimes ending in very sad situations. But still we press on being the Light that Jesus has called us here to be.
His Word tells us that when we feed them, clothe them, give them something to drink, we've done it unto Him also.
Let us alway do unto others, as we would have them do unto us.
God Bless
Deborah
