Container

We received a much anticipated sea container this week!  We want to thank everyone for their part in sending it to us!  There are so many medical supplies, building supplies, and fun packages for the hospital and for us.  We really appreciate all the work that goes into it.  We don't know everyone who donates money, buys supplies, packs the container, etc, but we want to name a few that we know.

Thanks to Tory and Wendy for collecting money, purchasing and delivering a 4 wheeler for use around the campus.  David put on a few miles the first day (yes, for work!! :) ).  Orrin thinks it's pretty great too :)




Thanks to my parents for donating gloves and diapers for the Hospital.  Thanks to Grandma Gerst for crocheting balls for the kids at the hospital, and Emma Metzger for sending a bunch of Creole Bible Story Books!

There is a really sick little boy in the Hospital right now (not one of these pictured) and his mom is unable to take care of him.  He is at the Hospital alone, and it's so sad to see.  But it's neat to see the staff pull around him.  They bring him food and bathe him.  When we brought the balls to the hospital, I gave him one.  He said, "Mesi" (thank you)...it was the first thing I've heard him say.  So sweet!

Thanks also to David's parents for the Christmas gifts (yes, in April) for Orrin, and to Troy and April Slagel for Orrin's toy trucks!  Thanks to Troy and Leann for doing some grocery shopping for us.  Thanks to Rhonda and Emily for sending baby girl clothes that they were done with....and so many others!  Thanks to whoever sent pears...for weeks, Orrin kept saying, "Pears, when container comes!"  He ate a whole can that night...and then drank the juice :)

This Hospital is such a huge project.  We're thankful for all the staff that works here every day, putting in their time and effort to make it a success.  We're also so thankful for everyone's involvement "back home."  Thanks for your prayers, your donations, your visits on work teams.  Please continue to remember Hospital Lumiere in whatever way you can.  May God bless you, and may He bless His work that is being done here!