Prayer Request

Hello friends and family,
I hope that you all are doing good and having a good week. Katherine and I have worked Monday through Wednesday and it has been great but harder beacause our babies are sick! It is Wednesday night here, about 9:00. I just wanted to share a few things with you:

Please pray: Our babies are sick with diarrhea and vomiting. There are only four out of our group of twelve children who are not sick and in an "isolation room" (we have two now). It breaks my heart to see them so sick and crying so much. They do not have an appetite and not wanting to eat-we must feed rehydration water every few hours, which is always a struggle because this does not exactly taste good...Please pray for healing for the children and strength and patience for the other aunties, uncles, and volunteers.

Door of Hope also is in desperate need of a social worker. All of the adoptions are being put on hold because there is not a social worker...which is not good. Please pray that God will provide a social worker who desires to glorify Him and who will truly love the children.

Thank you so much for your prayers...

I also want to tell you something else that happened today. A couple weeks ago, I believe that I told you about two of our little boys who were adopted-one to a family in Holland and another in Sweden. Well, after the adoption, the family has to stay in Johannesburg for 2 weeks with the baby just to make sure that everything is going to be okay and this is also to follow policy. Well, today the two families came today to Door of Hope to tell everyone goodbye and to see where their son lived for the first few months of his life. When they arrived and were taken on a tour of the orphanage, everyone was so excited! This was amazing to see and brought tears to my eyes. Just to see the joy radiating from the new parents' eyes and to see the evident love that each couple had for the small baby that they held in their arms was precious. Each couple was taking pictures, videoing, and talking to all the aunties and uncles. It was like a big renuion. This was truly something I will never forget. I hope that each precious child will have the opportunity to have a family who loves them unconditionally and teaches them about God's amazing love and grace.

Thank you again for your prayers and I love you all!