Week of contrast

What a contrast this week has been compared to last week. I was playing mum while my amazing friend was lying in a hospital bed. This week I’m back to being “Auntie Lindsay” and my friend is back home and recovering extremely well! Praise the Lord for restoring some sense of reality back into our lives.
The little girl I wrote about last week is still progressing at a fantastic rate. She is now interacting well with all the other children in baby crèche, as well as the other volunteers and house mothers. Whenever I’m in crèche with my camera she always wants to have her photo taken and then look at it. She is communicating so well now, it truly is amazing. God is really answering our prayers!

Our new little baby is also doing very well. She is bonding nicely with her new house mother and is happy and smiley!!!

Unfortunately, the little boy that arrived shortly after Christmas isn’t doing so well. I’ve written about him before as he was admitted to hospital with TB. He has gone from 10kg to just 7kg and he’s 4 years old (he should weigh 17kg). Whenever I pick him up I pray that I don’t break anything, he really is just so underweight. He is being cared for very well by his house mother, but the TB and the side effects of the TB treatment are just making him so ill and weak. Please guys your prayers for him would be so greatly appreciated! Thanks also for your prayers so far.

All the children have a “memory book” which we update with pictures throughout the year. There are pictures of birthdays, Christmas’s, outings, family members that visit amongst other things. It’s a lovely thing to do for the kids so they can look back over the years they have been at Rehoboth and see just how blessed they are to be here. We’re in the process of updating the books and so have been taking some new pictures of the newer houses and of the two newest sibling pairs we have (two brothers and then a brother and a sister). I had to include the pictures this week as they are just so cute!!!

Rehoboth was blessed with a new car last week. We traded in our old car which was becoming dangerous for a newer model. Hopefully we will have less problems with this car! We also got some amazing news that we have been awarded a grant from the Lotto here in South Africa. They’ve awarded us nearly R400, 000 (28,000 pounds ish) which will go towards a new 4 x 4 truck and will also be used to increase the workers salaries which is a real boost for us! It’s so wonderful to see just how much God is blessing this village! He is truly amazing!
With only now 2 weeks left, I’m trying to spend as much time with the kids as possible. In the mornings that’s in baby crèche and in the afternoons I swim with the older kids and sit with them outside. It’s always such a special time just to go up to the houses and be with the kids. They’re so much more relaxed in their familiar, home environment. Man I’m going to miss these kids…….