Highs and Lows

Well we were officially lost for the past month. For all of you that check our blog regularly Sorry. There is a lot to tell you about but I will keep it short for now and hopefully we will be back on soon.

Today is officially the "end of the world as I have known it" being it is my 40th birthday. A day that I could not imagine would ever happen to me has officially come. A great surprise was that at 4:45am many of the David family children came over and knocked on the door, got us out of bed with calls of "Uncle Geoff, we need you Mable is sick". So of course we got up threw some clothes on and opened the door only to find 15 kids on our porch with candles singing happy birthday. Quite the surprise...It is such a blessing to see the love that God has given our family towards each other. God has really given us a place in the lives of these young people and as a reflection at "40" I can't tell you how it feels to be doing the work that we are. These children have had many hardships in their young lives and God has been so gracious to give us the opportunity to share His love with them.

On the low side of things Mary has been sick for the past two weeks and upon the seriousness of her symptoms we went to a doctor in Kampala to try and get to the bottom of what was going on. The diagnosis is a "Auto-imume" thing going on in her liver. It seems that the imune system has seen her liver as a problem, and thinking that it is sickness has set out to destroy the sickness. What that means is that essentially her body is attacking her liver and without treatment serious damage will happen to her liver resulting in failure. The good thing is it appears that the treatment is fairly simple with some small diet change and steroid therapy things should revert back to normal. She began the 4 week treatment last Tuesday and Lord willing we should be seeing some progress soon. Please keep her in your prayers as she is mostly confined to bed or the house as she gets too tired when she tries to do anything. Our friends here have been bringing us meals trying to reduce the stress on our house. I am doing my best to cut back on work, which seems nearly impossible and Allison has taken the load of the childrens school from Mary.

Thank you to who are praying, we will keep you updated on her progress. Please don't worry God is faithful and we know that He is well able to care for us. The medical care we have received is adequite and we are resting in God's peace for us.

Blessings,