I have written before about a boy at our Laguna outreach with a cleft palate. Man and I have talked about him many times to our group. So in the way of the telephone game, one person to another, then another, etc.... It looks like he is getting the surgery he needs to change his life!
This is what we hope will happen: Man will go along with the little boy, his mom, and our Pastor's wife, Teresa, to the Aklan Baptist Hospital on the island of Panay. He will have a consult with a visiting medical missions team surgeon; then he will be scheduled for surgery sometime between Feb. 4 and the 7th. This little guy can't talk, he can only eat some things. Can you imagine the change? The surgery is free, we just have to pay for medication.
Please pray for his courage. Pray for the wisdom of the doctors. Pray for supernatural God speed recovery. I will keep you posted.
In other news is our kickin' construction team! Only man is actually a construction guy, and I think the big C is a bit as well - but the rest of us do have hands. There are 18 outreach sites on our little 1x6 mile island. Some sites have shelters under which we can feed and love on the kids, but many sites have no shelter so when it rains we have to cancel. Some shelters are in need of repair so our first job as a construction dream team was to fix the Alta Vista shelter - I think we'll now call them community centers!
Many of the kids pitched in to help with rock or pipe hammers.
Bis checking out the roof.
Girl Power
Boy Power - and Man's hammer
The ice-cream bicycle showed up.
Rock and hammer in the hands of a babe. Love his concentration and drippy nose.
Man attempting to fix the nipa roof.
Babe again. So bold, so hardworking, so nakedish...
This man stepped in and climbed up to teach us how to fix the nipa roof. He did that hole, we did most of the others, leaving one hole for the community to fix with supplies we left.
Considering all of the things we do and plan to do on Boracay, we are a small group of missionaries: 11 adults and 8 tweens and teens. So when you read about all that we are doing, be sure to think of our little team and know that you can do big things too!
Next weekend we will begin work on a site called the Helicopter Outreach - it has a heli pad there. This community center will be from the ground up. To build a shelter from scratch costs about $400 US dollars. If you'd like to help let us know. Man will go out this week with our Pastor to all of the sites, take notes and pictures, and then we'll work with our group to set up a build schedule.
In May the Kropp family will go to Mindoro Island to do a job with YWAM. We are going to build a house for a family, in honor of my missed and beloved Mom.
There are more kids with cleft lips and palates who need surgery. We hope to work all out in these next months. Join us?
I want to eat little nakey orange shirt boy up! How darling!!!! Can you put him in a box and send him to me?
ReplyDeleteHow much is to for the medication for one child to get a cleft lip/palette repaired?
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