Good evening and blessing to you all,
Pastor Mike and Theresa, thank you for your prayer on Saturday, it is a blessing to have this wonderful support system, I thank God for you everyday. You all have made this journey positively joyous, and I can’t express how grateful I am to have the Lord place me with my Birth family who Prays with and for us constantly, my Crossroads family, and my CEF family. After we spoke, we did have a situation that required God’s grace.
Please pray for Jordyn. Late Saturday evening she was having trouble breathing and I had to take her to the emergency room. It was a scary time for both of us as the hospital was 18 miles away and it was dark and raining. The Lord gave us the strength to make it and get the care she needed. We do not know what brought it on. The Doctor diagnosed her as having musclespasm as her lungs swelled making it almost impossible to breathe. They had her on a breathing machine and it opened her passages within 10 minutes. The Doctor also gave her an inhaler, and antibiotics for the inflamation or infection that resulted from this incident. We are to follow up with her primary care doctor for further evaluation. Since we will be down here for three months, we found a Pediatrician in the area. The Doctor indicated that this may be a temporary illnes and the prescriptions may clear up what ever caused the inflamation, or if there are reoccurences, it may be that she has asthma. Perhaps climate, perhaps something she ate, perhaps environmental changes with our new living quarters…it is unknown but she is feeling better.
On Sunday, Praise God, we were able to attend Church and give thanks for his grace and mercy. Everyone down here is reaching out and praying for us and we are grateful. Jordyn is getting more and more comfortable with school and making new acquaintances. We had a wonderful surprise today, Ken and Sharon (Chicago’s Local Directors) came down and stopped in for lunch, it was beautiful to see loving faces from home. We are so blessed and so excited at this opportunity to grow in Christ. We are learning so much and looking forward to sharing all that we learn with all who will hear.
Today in class, we had 6 children come in for the Teaching Little Children class, and they took part in a full GNC lesson for ages 2-8, this was much different from the GNC we normally teach, the language was totally different, but the message was the same. This class involved more activities due to the attention span for this age group. It was awesome, and challenging. All that you do for older children had to be changed so that the younger group received and understood the message. WOW!!!!!!!
Attached are some fun photos Jordyn on her first day of school waiting for the bus to go to her new/temporary school Warrior Ridge Elementary, she misses her Teacher and friends back home. Also, see two photos of the children and the Instructors. See the children as they lay on cots experiencing what it would feel like to be like the lame man, Lazarous. How about that for teaching.
We Love You all and Miss You,
Angela and Jordyn
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P.S. Theresa, here are our five verses for the week.
Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:14, John 3:15, Acts 16:31, 2 Peter 3:18, 1 Cor 15:3 and 4, Romans 3:23, John 3:16, Eph 2:8. Wow, just sending these verses to you gets me all excited remembering what they mean.
