Kids’ Doc in Jos

I keep putting off writing my next blog entry. Either I’m too busy, or discouraged, or feeling like there’s nothing to write about. What would I have written about?

• An interesting irony in a sermon in a major church. First, the pastor spoke of how we need to follow the Bible and not our culture, saying that this is a weak point in our churches, because Christians give the “it’s just my culture” reason for doing so many things. Yes, right on! Then, only a few minutes later, he asked all the single people over thirty years of age to come up onto the platform to be prayed for against the curse of singleness! By faith, he told us, all these young people would be married, or at least find their future spouse, by the end of this year. That was to be part of the miracle that God would do as part of our communion service. Go figure.



• Baby Lydia is probably leaving us this weekend, just when she has claimed even my attachment. Luke fell apart when he heard that she was going to leave us … he loves her so much. Sometimes he’s angry at us for letting someone else come and take her away, and he talks of the new parents as the “bad people.” We learned that the adoptive parents were supposed to have been given the baby 3 months ago, which would have been much less traumatic for everyone, but somehow the workers involved “forgot.”
• The nurse in charge of the pediatric ward brought me to see the results of insecticide-spraying in two rooms … hundreds of those small, brown German cockroaches lying dead. We’ve always had trouble controlling them, what with all the food in the rooms, patients bringing in bundles of food and clothing, and the bug hiding places behind the wooden bumper rails on the wall.
• We’re meeting with a lawyer soon to start adoption proceedings for Luke … only the parents are going to be Saralynn and David! Since David is Nigerian, we’re hoping that the adoption will be possible, making us the grandparents. This would also allow Luke to get a visa to travel to the US (we hope) and eventually to get US citizenship (we hope).
• We’re both getting tired … it has been a long 3 1/2 years, with another half-year to go, we wish we could see our grandkids, many friends have left here for good, or have been away for a year, we feel out of touch with our friends and family at home, …
• Saralynn’s husband David has resigned from Evangel’s residency program and will be moving to the federal government hospital, JUTH, in September. That means they’ll be leaving the Evangel compound, and we’re going to miss them a lot, though they won’t be too far away. Saralynn is doing fine with her pregnancy now, you can read her pregnancy blog.

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