Sendy

For anyone new, Sendy is a little girl at His Home for Children in Haiti. She has Hydrocephaly. She made it to the U.S. just prior to the earthquake and is in OH now. I met her on my first trip to Haiti in Sept of 07. We attempted to host her in our home for her initial treatment but it did not happen. She got the treatment in OH and returned to Haiti until recently she needed her shunt removed and made it back to OH right before the earthquake.

I have kept up on her since I met her. Praying for her and hoping we might adopt her. I felt God was giving us the opportunity to do this but it never happened. She never had a family come forward to adopt her so I always felt that there was a chance that it could still maybe happen.

A family has come forward to adopt her now. It was very difficult. I had to let go of the idea that it would ever happen. I have talked to the mom and emailed with them several times. Sendy will be blessed to be in their family. She just sent me these photos of her. Sendy does not need to have a new shunt put in which is great. It was very sad for me at first but I feel at peace now. I would love a daughter so much. Only God knows if that will ever happen. I know that I am to continue to work in Haiti and that will be harder if we adopt a child.

Sendy will cross my mind still often and I pray for her as I put closure on this.

Steph

Life keeps rolling along!

There is so much going on but nothing post worthy it seems. Daily life, chores, homework, dinner and work fill up time. The kids are doing fine. Last weekend was my last weekend of working every weekend. I will be working 2 days a week and every third weekend now. A regular hospital schedule. I can take off work whenever I want to! It will be so much more flexible but a lot less money. We are looking forward to getting back to going to church on a regular basis. We still have biblestudy every week but miss regular church.

Hands That Heal is expecting a lot of patients this year after the earthquake. We did 6 last year and have been approached by the orphanage we partner with to do 50!! We are trying to figure out what we are going to need to accomplish this. I did get the letter a few days ago from Methodist Hospital to do a little boy at the Nehemiah Childrens home that I have been wanting to help for 2 years. He has severely deformed legs and is going to have them fixed. This will change his life forever. He is the sweetest boy!

NVM has been extremely busy with medical teams going nonstop to run the clinic and mobil clinic. Many patients are being helped. I will be returning April 6th for a week. I have been very busy coordinating supplies and medicines for the teams.

Thats all for now!
Steph