This Week: baby in box, no payroll

Wow.  What a week. Lots of life packed in.

Last week I told you about the boy who fell from the tree and impaled a stick into his brain. He leaves the hospital today walking and talking slowly. Amazing. His father spoke in church on Sunday and I will share that in a separate post.

Our week was tipico (typical)…busy with school, the first week of soccer practice (M,W,F – games Sat) through a community program, two call days and the endless but often enjoyable walks to the panadaria (bakery), supermercado (grocery – although it’s about as big as Casey’s),  and other tiendas (shops) for meat, veggies and fruit. Life is simpler here in some ways but in a unique way fuller and often almost as busy in the States.

Yesterday, prayer requests seemed to explode from ministries here. 

Casa de Fe (House of Faith) – Pattie Sue, the orphanage director, was preparing to leave for a three-week fundraising trip to the States. She had planned to do payroll for the orphanage employees before she left but the monthly money transfer from the States did not come through the local banking system as scheduled. God knows but your prayers are appreciated. Please pray for her trip home as she visits churches that help the orphanage. Also, the orphanage has received several new children all at once…can’t quite remember the number, perhaps five… including an infant left in a box in the park with the umbilical cord still attached. The facility and staff are being stretched as they adjust.

Hospital Vozandes del Oriente –

Pray for…

----a 2 month old baby with pneumonia on the ventilator. The baby has coded two times… both on Jay during the night last night. 

----a woman with 2 masses in her abdomen. She came in very ill last night and Jay will be doing further tests today.

-----a pregnant mother who was in a car accident.

-----the jungle boy to continue to recover well without getting an infection from any minute stick fragments remaining in his brain. It’s quite a sight to see the 6” wound with shiny silver staples like a crude zipper on his shaved head. He is out of the hospital but will stay nearby for a month for speech therapy.

Thanks for praying,

Lynnelle for the Allisons