Urgent Prayer Request!!

For those of you that know Hourey from Ayorou (Ibrahim's wife) - PLEASE pray for her today. She is BEYOND sick ... she can't hardly walk or talk & has lost so much weight that she's basically a skeleton. We finally got her to Niamey & she's at the doctor right now. She has 5 children, one of which is Nafissa (Izzy's best friend from Ayorou). She's been sick for about 2 months & the "doctor" in Ayorou was unsuccessful in treating her. She can't keep anything down & is very, very weak at this point. Please pray that God would HEAL her & restore her health!!

UPDATE (Monday): latest on Hourey ... docs says she has a severe urinary tract infection & has had it for over 2 months. That's all they can find at this point. Thanks to everyone who is praying for her ... she's still got a long road to recovery.

UPDATE (Sunday 11/28):

We had hoped to send Hourey home yesterday as her UTI has completely healed but when we went to visit her, she was in BAD shape. She was screaming & shouting & seemed to be out of her mind. The nurses had no clue what was going on but the doctors wanted to run more tests. Her poor mom was just ready to leave & go home and Nafissa, her little 2 year old, has been begging to go home since they got here! 

After the results came back, it showed that her potassium level had bottomed out & that can cause symptoms of abnormal psychological behavior including psychosis, delirium, confusion & hallucinations! We were all a little scared to say the least!!

Today, however, she is back in her "right mind" & walking around! It looks like she may get to go home in the next couple of days! Thank you so much for all of your prayers for this wonderful woman & sister in Christ!

dancing queen

Our daughter LOVES to dance! LOVES it!! She loves for us to blare music on the front porch so she can dance around & around & around. She loves for her Daddy to play his guitar so she can dance around & around & around. She loves to Skype with her Gaga & Papa so they can play the piano for her & she can dance around & around & around. I think the Belle could be happy all day long if she was dancing!

 

Her usual choices for music? Lately it's been "This Old Man," "Wheels on the Bus," some Chris Tomlin tunes, a little High School Musical & a few Glee songs ... all classics if you ask me.

(And, sorry, pictures of dancing don't turn out exactly like one would hope. But that's what she's doing here!)

thanks again

Just wanted to give you another follow-up.  We had our first teaching time ever in Bangawi on Sunday.  There were around 20 people who listened to us talk about Jesus.  They all listened very respectfully (sometimes a rare thing) and at the end one man, in front of his family and friends said "I believe! I believe!" We asked him some questions and talked to him about baptism.  He said "let's go to the river now!"  And so you have a new brother in the faith.  Satan's grip is loosened even more as the powerful name of Jesus changes history!  Thanks again for your continued prayers!

he's on the move

Watch out ladies, Luke is on the move! He's not quite up & off the floor yet but he's scooting along! It's so funny how different kids are. Isabelle was so quick to sit on her own & pull up but only crawled for about 1 month before walking. Luke, however, was so slow to sit on his own but has started crawling so much sooner than Isabelle. I'm just anxious to see how soon he'll start taking steps! Oh dear, life is about to get very interesting with 2 mobile kiddos!