Abraham

Abraham is one year old! He is a ladies man! The girls always love to hug and hold him. He is almost ready to walk and can get around fairly quickly with crawling.


He enjoys clapping to the morning devo songs and has his own language that most of us don't understand!


He's now had his second DBS test and both have come back negative. However, I keep him on septrin b/c he has some other signs that he may still be HIV positive.  He tends to break out at times with herpes of one kind or another. So...we'll test again at 18 months.


Both parents are postive and mom's health has declined much in the past few months.

Dad visits regularly and we visit the family very regularly. They are a lovely family - I love spending time with Josephine the mom - she's just too sweet. They have challenges ++ with unemployment, sickness and extended family problems.

Please put this family on your prayer list!




Lumaamba

Baby Lumaamba - Now 5 1/2 months old and continues to gain weight nicely! He has TB and recently had 2 cysts by his left ear (a part of TB) excised. He is just so sweet. He loves to smile and then he forgets that he's giving you a big smile and then it suddenly disappears!

He is a very easy baby to care for - he is a self-soother - he sucks on 2 fingers - one is not good enough!

Cornolius

This photos is especially for Krista! Cornolius is now 3 1/2 months old!

This little guy is so sweet. He has such a sweet and gentle personality. He takes in everything that is going on with his big "owl eyes" as Richard has called them. He family came a while ago and were SO grateful for how he's doing. They were overwhelmed with his fatness! As we are!

Continue to pray for this little guy and his family as they figure out how their family will come together to look after him permanently. 

Every tuesday and thursday afternoon we spend 90 precious minutes with the grade 7's at Siabalumbi Christian Community school , about 6 km. away.

We love these kids! There are approximately 20 who regularly attend and we work on listening, speaking and writing English skills. Its amazing how quickly kids learn, especially when they are having fun.

No attendance is marked, no detentions are given out, no papers are marked, and the kids have no breaks in the 90 minutes. And they never complain!

We do listening action games, sing songs, read Bible stories, do spelling bees, and practice and practice speaking using whole sentences!

Richard has lots of fun - and enjoys +++ tricking the kids! 

Saying good bye to Timmy and Molly

A couple of Sundays ago we took Timmy and Molly, the 3 1/2 year old twins to their family's village near Zimba. Timmy and Molly had become attached to EVERYONE, so saying good bye was quite emotional. We know where they live because we've now driven there twice. We'll check on them regularly and we have a friend who lives nearby that will also check on them. The school and church are just metres away. The uncle has much in terms of maize fields, groundnuts and beans. As well, he is a community health volunteer. Getting to medical help is relatively easy because a well groomed road is by the church and school.

Psalm 68:6 - God places the lonely in families! Thank you God for your plans for these children!