Shiloh Hache

Thank you for praying.  Shiloh’s levels (not to sure what they were measuring I think it was the bilirubin in her blood) went up to 18 and couldn’t go past the mid 20s or brain damage would happen,  but praise God her levels are coming down.  Jason called my aunt (his mother)  at 2 a.m. and said the level was 14 and then this morning at 9 a.m. it was 10 and she will not have to have a blood transfer or transfusion.  If she continues to do well she may be discharged from ICU tonight and maybe sent back to the hospital where she was born tomorrow or Sunday and then maybe home.  She still needs to be under a special blanket with special lights for a few days.  Please continue to pray for Beka as her body and emotions have been through a lot with her grandpa dying on the day Shiloh was born and everything that has gone on since.  They are a bit concerned about postpartum depression, please pray for the Lord to carry her through all this in a healthy way.  Jason and the children also need continued prayer and Beka’s mom Brenda as she leaves Tues to go to her Dad’s funeral (she lives in CA and that is also where her father lived).  She will fly back for another week and a half to be with Beka and Jason and help as much as she can.

Richard

I should let you know how Richard is.  He is home from hospital and seems well.  He is booked to have his heart surgery for April 12 and there is much surgery needed.  His results from his last angiogram last Friday said his left artery is blocked 70% so he needs to surgery sooner rather than later as his right artery is 100% calcified and his ascending aorta is also quite calcified and he needs a new aortic heart valve.  It really sounds overwhelming but I do believe in a God who does miracles and has done in the past and will do so again in the future.

John

Just to keep you updated on John also.  His surgery went well and they were able to remove the fluid.  He had a quick recovery time in the ICU with no complication and then to the normal ward and home in amazing time.  The doctors were able to remove all of the fluid but did find the tumor to be cancerous so he will now have to start an agresive regime of chemo.  Please pray that all goes well through this process.

Please pray for her recovery and the doctor’s to have great wisdom in treating this condition.  Pray for the peace of God that passes understanding for Becka and Jason.  Pray for God to turn this around for their good and His glory.

 Please also pray for their two older children Jakob and Mercedes, they are both still very young and will have a hard time understanding what is going on.

Richard is currently in hospital awaiting a decission by a surgeon on what to do with his heart.  he went in just over a week ago with the intention of having a valve replaced/worked on.  The Dr’s felt that this was not going to work as his condition was different than they had anticipated.  Today (Saturday 6th Feb) a specialist is looking at his case and deciding if he will do a specialised surgery to help him. 

 Please pray that the surgery will go forward and that there will be no complications.

 I am aware that my explanation is very vague but, as many of you know i have absolutely no medical knowledge… so i thought vague was better than mis-communication!!!

Thanks again for praying!!

 What a great family outing!!

 It tooks hours to make all of the pizza dough but, in the end we even had enough left to take two to the Arabic church plant.

 Caleb is now 11 and still proving to be a stong, determind child.  His favorite subject is still math.  He loves Hockey and reading, although his interests seems to be growing as he gets older and developes more opportunities to learn about new things.

 This morning it was fun to hear him guiding his younger brother in the right direction.   It was clear the situation was not going as planned and we were begining to hear some whinning.  Wise words from an older brother calmed the situation down and moved it into a story of thanksgiving before I was able to get in the room to deal with it….. ok, i did wait outside the door to see how it would all pan out.  It was great to see that he continues to learn the best way and develope the skills to show it in his own actions as well as help his siblings remember the right thing to do.

Continue to pray that he alwasy desires to seek out the directions God has for him.

Today a group of new students arrived.  Aaron is busy picking them up and sorting there houses.  Sunday we will meet some of them and then the rest at their welcome breakfast.  Please pray for them as they adjust to life in London and for some of them this will be the first time the have to ‘live’ in a second language.

On Sunday we are having people over to celebrate Caleb’s 11th birthday.  it actually happened while we were in Canada but, thought we would recognise it here as well. He is very excited… it isn’t every year you get to have two birthdays.

It looks like i should get back to making pizza dough….  Caleb’s request for his birthday meal!!

On our first Sunday in Canada the kids were all very excited when we had to stop on our way to church to let the Moose cross the road!!

 We are now back at Grandma’s for the rest of our visit.  There has been a lot of snow and many chances to be out skating, toboganing and playing in the snow.  Thankfully we have only had one trip to the emergency room and that was not because of a winter accident!!  Eden had unfortunatly stepped on some glass and we were just unable to get it all out of her foot ourselves… even through we had thought that we did.

Eileen was also able to spend time alone with her mother and grandmother visiting her great aunt in her new home. 

Aaron took all the kids toboganing today while Eileen went to a friends knitting club…

 We had a wonderful time catching up and the kids all enjoyed playing together.  It was pretty interesting with the age range…  Caleb 10yrs, Eden 8yrs, Nathan 6yrs, Gabe 4yrs, Elsie 2yrs & Sol 5mo.  As you can imagine some of the games couldn’t include them all.

We did a fun castle in East Lothian and then walked through the Fringe festival on our way to the National Museum of Scotland, Aaron, Caleb & Nathan even climbed Arthurs seat in the rain… oh the fun.

The pictures of our weekend are up on the site!!

The weather all week was beautiful and we all had loads of fun.  We did a couple of walks, one up the backside of the needles and the other to St.Catherine’s lighthouse.  Both beautiful and both completely worth it.  We also had many afternoons at the beach, who would have known we were still in the UK with such great weather and wonderful beach’s.

We have uploaded lots of photo’s on the photo page with the link “Isle of Wight”.