I'll start with a HUGE thanksgiving for the thick power of the Holy Spirit that fell on our church service tonight. It was undeniable and humbling...magnificent!
Ok, so to update you...Fernanda has certainly not taken a turn for the better. She has lost weight again today. She lost 300 grams (14 ounces)...that brings her to a VERY small 13 pounds (give or take a bit). She cannot lose any more. We don't have room for any more loss! So we are asking you to pray. God laid it on Erin's heart this afternoon to start praying for her personally daily until she doesn't need it any more. So our missionary team is going to start praying over her daily at 3:00pm. That is the time she wakes up from nap and we weigh her each day. So our plan is to meet in the clinic and lay hands on her. I'm asking that you would stop in your day and stand with us in prayer as well. For all of you in South Carolina...that is 9:00am!
We are trusting and waiting for God to show up in a big way here...in only the way He can! It is an uphill battle for sure. As I've said the medications she will hopefully be taking will be very hard on her. And, it usually is a few weeks or even a month before positive weight gain, appetite, and health start to appear. Again we have no more weight to lose, and she has once again decided to assert her power over food. She knew by smell we had added baby cereal powder to her milk and refused it. She refused to eat the beloved rice and beans from yesterday. She did eat 3/4 of a yogurt, peanut butter, and milk shake (Erin's best guess at getting some food in her)...only vomiting 1/4.
She came to our weekly church service tonight for prayer. Missionaries, pastors, and youth prayed over her frail little body...we prayed that God would fill her with an appetite again, joy, a will for life, peace...I continued to pray that she would just be another example of His amazing power and sovereignty...there have been so many others in the years at this center...we are all trusting God to show His awesome power again in this little life! So I'm asking you to join us all in prayer daily...let's lift up her life, health, and body to our awesome God!
And please keep praying for Naftal as well. The lastest update is confirmation that the cancer has spread to his heart and possibly his second kidney. Their plan now is to do chemo first to hopefully shrink the tumor...and then proceed with surgery. But, there has still been no treatment of his current symptoms. His pain has increased...Laura sent me a frantic prayer e-mail tonight from the hospital saying he was flipping around on the bed in pain and the nurses wouldn't do anything. He is certainly having issues breathing and his abdomen is fluid-filled. Just keep praying with us for healing, wisdom for the doctors/nurses, the tias who are staying with him, Laura and the other missionaries close to him, the other boys in Laura's dorm, and especially his father and brother (who we all prayed over in church tonight as well).
Thank you for all your prayers...just keep them coming!
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