Evangeline

Evangeline is a 1yr old girl needing medical assistance. She appears to have hydrocephalus but in the front lobe not throughout the head. We are still waiting on her medical report. She is cognitively normal as a one year old otherwise. She also has weakness in her feet. She tries to use her legs to stand but her feet dont seem to want to cooperate. This will have to be addressed as well. Anyone who has knows doctors/hospitals willing to donate for her care and a host family near that donated care, please contact us. Thank you!

take my picture..take my picture!

Yep- we are asked alot by children to "take my picture"...here are just a few.

Lil Abigail..

I met sweet Abigail 3 years ago. She is a special needs child who is severely malnourished and has mild cp. We were supporting her family for some time but lately discovered that her family says she is vexed and should just die. (A tribal belief in evil spirits due to her handicap) We have been advocating for them to allow her to come into our care and we would care for her but they have refused mostly because we took their funding away as they were not spending it on her. They would also either sell her food or give it to her baby sister who is 3 yrs younger than her and twice her size. Abigail is 6yrs and 10lbs! We also discovered that the clothes we would donate would be either sold or given to her sister as well. How sad is that?

Please pray for Lil Abigail. We are now trying to involve the various government ministries who could intervene on her behalf. With it she will not live much longer. Every child is precious and deserving of life and a family who loves them and treasures them. Abigail is in much need of this.

3 boys coming to the states for medical care

This is Anthony and his dad. He does a great job caring for his son however Anthony is in much need of medical treatment in the states. We will be bringing him on Sunday.

And Denise is holding Melvin who is coming to the states as well this Sunday for medical treatment for his spleen. Melvin is blessed to have 3 "moms" who love him. This is his biological mom on the left, then Denise (host mom) and Melvin, and his FMN foster mom on the right.

Nye has been to the states a couple of years ago when we helped him to receive a shunt for his hydrocephalus. His shunt is plugged and now he is in need of it being replaced. He is being helped once again by the wonderful doctors, hospital, and host family that helped him last time. Nye will be traveling with us on Sunday too.


All of us are honored to be a part of helping each of these children receive the medical care they so need in the states. In this picture is Daniel Mulbah (G.O.O. Country Director), Pst. Peter Flomo (G.O.O. Board member and child advocate), Josephus Flomo (FMN Country Director), Donna Barber (G.O.O. Executive Director), and Professor Mogana Flomo (G.O.O. Board member). (Denise Wagner is G.O.O. medical coordinator state side who is also instrumental in helping these medical cases) We partner with Liberia's ministry of Justice and ministry of health.

the need IS the call!

So many times I hear people say God hasnt called me or I dont know what God is calling me to. Or I am too old, too young, I dont have time, I have kids, I cant right now, I am not called to Africa, or I dont have any money. The reality isnt just in Africa- its all around you even in your neighborhood.

I want to remind you- ALL are called- especially if you call yourself a Christian. You need no excuse or no one telling you what your call is. You do not need to "pray" on it! Stop and Look around you. The needs around you IS the call.

We Are Almost There!

WE ONLY HAVE 4  3  2 STUDENTS LEFT TO SPONSOR!


LeRoyd,   who is $10.00/month  LeRoy has been sponsored!!
Annie,      who is $10.00/month  Annie has been sponsored!!
Rachel,     who is $10.00/month
Rebecca,   who is $10.00/month

We are so close to having tuition paid for ALL our students in the program this year.


If you choose to be a sponsor of one of the above children, Stephen, our country director, will send you this!

Ok, maybe not this particular one, but one like it.  And although it is not a big djembe drum, it is a nifty (did I just say that? I haven't said "nifty" in a long time, maybe ages!) little item to have in your home......just because it is from Liberia.  


*And for those of you who just may want one just for fun~contact me and for $15.00 we will get you one too!  Shipping is limited so it will be first-come, first-served basis.  Offer ends Saturday.  Thanks!

Isaiah 65:24

This story was written by a Doctor who was working in Africa .


One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all we could do, she died, leaving us with a tiny, premature baby and a crying two-year-old daughter. We would have difficulty keeping the baby alive; as we had no incubator (we had no electricity to run an incubator).

We also had no special feeding facilities.

Although we lived on the equator, nights were often chilly with treacherous drafts. One student midwife went for the box we had for such babies and the cotton wool that the baby would be wrapped in.

Another went to stoke up the fire and fill a hot water bottle. She came back shortly in distress to tell me that in filling the bottle, it had burst (rubber perishes easily in tropical climates)..

'And it is our last hot water bottle!' she exclaimed. As in the West, it is no good crying over spilled milk, so in Central Africa

it might be considered no good crying over burst water bottles.


They do not grow on trees, and there are no drugstores down forest pathways.


'All right,' I said, 'put the baby as near the fire as you safely can, and sleep between the baby and the door to keep it free from drafts Your job is to keep the baby warm.'


The following noon, as I did most days, I went to have prayers with any of the orphanage children who chose to gather with me. I gave the youngsters various suggestions of things to pray about and told them about the tiny baby. I explained our problem about keeping the baby warm enough, mentioning the hot water bottle, and that the baby could so easily die if it got chills. I also told them of the two-year-old sister, crying because her mother had died.



During prayer time, one ten -year-old girl, Ruth, prayed with the usual blunt conciseness of our African children. 'Please, God' she prayed, 'Send us a hot water bottle today It'll be no good tomorrow, God, as the baby will be dead, so please send it this afternoon.'


While I gasped inwardly at the audacity of the prayer, she added, 'And while You are about it, would You please send a dolly for the little girl so she'll know You really love her?'


As often with children's prayers, I was put on the spot. Could I honestly say 'Amen?' I just did not believe that God could do this.


Oh, yes, I know that He can do everything; the Bible says so. But there are limits, aren't there? The only way God could answer this particular prayer would be by sending me a parcel from the homeland. I had been in Africa for almost four years at that time, and I had never, ever, received a parcel from home.


Anyway, if anyone did send me a parcel, who would put in a hot water bottle? I lived on the equator!


Halfway through the afternoon, while I was teaching in the nurses' training school, a message was sent that there was a car at my front door. By the time I reached home, the car had gone, but there on the verandah was a large 22-pound parcel. I felt tears pricking my eyes. I could not open the parcel alone, so I sent for the orphanage children... Together we pulled off the string, carefully undoing each knot. We folded the paper, taking care not to tear it unduly Excitement was mounting. Some thirty or forty pairs of eyes were focused on the large cardboard box. From the top, I lifted out brightly-colored, knitted jerseys. Eyes sparkled as I gave them out. Then there were the knitted bandages for the leprosy patients, and the children looked a little bored.. Then came a box of mixed raisins and sultanas - that would make a batch of buns for the weekend.


Then, as I put my hand in again, I felt the.....could it really be?


I grasped it and pulled it out. Yes, a brand new, rubber hot water bottle. I cried.


I had not asked God to send it; I had not truly believed that He could.


Ruth was in the front row of the children. She rushed forward, crying out, 'If God has sent the bottle, He must have sent the dolly, too!'

Rummaging down to the bottom of the box, she pulled out the small, beautifully-dressed dolly. Her eyes shone! She had never doubted!


Looking up at me, she asked, 'Can I go over with you and give this dolly to that little girl, so she'll know that Jesus really loves her?'

'Of course,' I replied!

That parcel had been on the way for five whole months, packed up by my former Sunday school class, whose leader had heard and obeyed God's prompting to send a hot water bottle, even to the equator..

And one of the girls had put in a dolly for an African child - five months before, in answer to the believing prayer of a ten-year-old to bring it 'that afternoon.'

'Before they call, I will answer.' (Isaiah 65:24)




Prayer is one of the best free gifts we receive. There is no cost, but a lot of rewards. Please continue to pray for all the projects and programs under the care of Global Orphan Outreach. Thank you!