Lived it on 2/15 but Posted on 3/4/09!
I came back to the Philippine Islands. I was in California for but 5 weeks andhave been back here for 2 weeks. Time has a crazy way of not behaving!
Mercy In Action is starting a new clinic in Calapan City, alongside of an orphanage run by the Ruel Foundation, good friends of ours. We visited on our way back to Puerto Galera. This involved another boat ride where I took picture #1, and visiting with the orphans who are great fun to play and work up a sweat with, but who then freeze when they see the camera.
You can see how healthy they look. And yet in the other picture, can you see the tiny skinny baby Director Pauline is holding? He weighs just 4100g, or 9.04 pounds, and is EIGHTEEN MONTHS OLD. So little Bertie is now on a feeding program to safely bring him up to weight and
is held and loved alot. I am sure the healthy little kids I am holding came to Ruel in the same condition....and the baby girl Nicole Vicki is holding is a child whose brave teenage mother carried to term in spite of the fact that she was conceived because of rape. Nicole is now cared for--and it is a tragedy that so many many birth defects and abandonments happen here, and yet redeemed because people care enough to care for them now and work toward adoption into families who have the heart and means to care for them as well.
So as the sun goes down on Tamaraw, my favorite beach here, please continue to pray for us as we finish our work in White Beach, start anew in Calapan City, and maintain our support of the small dear clinics in the Manila slums.
Yes, thank you for your prayers as we gladly pray for you!
Mercy In Action is starting a new clinic in Calapan City, alongside of an orphanage run by the Ruel Foundation, good friends of ours. We visited on our way back to Puerto Galera. This involved another boat ride where I took picture #1, and visiting with the orphans who are great fun to play and work up a sweat with, but who then freeze when they see the camera.
You can see how healthy they look. And yet in the other picture, can you see the tiny skinny baby Director Pauline is holding? He weighs just 4100g, or 9.04 pounds, and is EIGHTEEN MONTHS OLD. So little Bertie is now on a feeding program to safely bring him up to weight and
is held and loved alot. I am sure the healthy little kids I am holding came to Ruel in the same condition....and the baby girl Nicole Vicki is holding is a child whose brave teenage mother carried to term in spite of the fact that she was conceived because of rape. Nicole is now cared for--and it is a tragedy that so many many birth defects and abandonments happen here, and yet redeemed because people care enough to care for them now and work toward adoption into families who have the heart and means to care for them as well.
So as the sun goes down on Tamaraw, my favorite beach here, please continue to pray for us as we finish our work in White Beach, start anew in Calapan City, and maintain our support of the small dear clinics in the Manila slums.
Yes, thank you for your prayers as we gladly pray for you!
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