A prayer request from my daughter.. her inlaws are missionaries to Haiti

Our daughter Jenn and her husband, Jeremiah were in Haiti last August visiting orphanages as part of a missions trip... because their hearts were so moved by the sad plight of the orphans they are adopting from Ethiopia. They wanted to adopt from Haiti but Jenn is only 28 and both parents have to be 30 so they are adopting from Eithiopia instead... this is a blog post from her... the orphanages they visited were in Port au Prince and the one missionary Sherrie has not been heard from or no word on the kids.. if you visit Jenn's blog you can see pictures of the kids in this orphanage and our daughter in one of the pics.. please pray for them and the country of Haiti. Jeremiah's parents are in Florida and serve as a support to the missionaries in Haiti... please also pray for them as they knew the faces of these children and the missionaries and others that have not been heard from. Jenn's blog link is http://www.thehambrickfamily.blogspot.com/


Wednesday, January 13, 2010Prayer Request: Haiti
As you've probably heard already on the news...Haiti experienced a 7.0 magnitude earthquake late yesterday afternoon, just a few miles outside the capital city of Port au Prince.As I've seen firsthand from our trip this year, Haiti doesn't have the infrastructure or resources to deal with this catastrophe. My heart is absolutely broken for what I know my friends are experiencing right now.Here's an update, from those of you who remember my posts about our trip this year on some of the missionaries we worked with:We have heard that Dorothy Pearce, director of Faith Hope Love Infant Rescue is ok. We aren't certain of her orphanage and children and nannies yet.Marie Prinvall, another orphanage and school director is also ok, as well as her compound and children. Praise the Lord!We have NOT heard any news or been able to make contact with Sherrie Faussey, director of the school and orphanage in Port Au Prince. We have heard discouraging reports about the Delmas 31 area, which is where the school and orphanage are located.I'll post again whenever we hear something more about Sherrie.Some pictures of our trip this year..."Good" housing on a "good" day...Just some of the children at Sherrie's orphanage...They don't get any sweeter than this...Again, "good" houses on a "good" day in Haiti...Please pray.

He was crazy and we had the best time watching him

He seemed to like making everyone laugh too.

Andrew walking all over the kitchen :)

Look at how they are changing...

Andrew is walking all over the kitchen, Gracie is very comfortable with the dogs and even reaches out to them,

Look at how Andrew got up from his nap today.. he had totally turned his t shirt around and his shirt and took his arm out and got his sock off.. Paul feels he was never allowed to do these things and now is really enjoying just discovering how things work and how he can manipulate his environment... and we all love watching him do this.

Play therapy with siblings is really transforming Andrew and Gracie... you do not have to spend lots of money or drive to far to figure out some of what is needed for these kids.... the encouragement the other children have given to them has already made huge changes in their lives...

This is how we like to think our little guy sleeps most of the time but keep looking :)

We caught Andrew asleep the way most kids sleep... he is so funny how he plays and finally goes to sleep in his bed... he loves to be under things... can you find him? Not until you look under the mattress... that is how we usually find our little guy :)

Gracie and Andrew update

We have been home 2 weeks now... Both the kids are doing very well. Gracie was at the doctors on Friday and she has gained almost 2 lbs with us. She is relatively healthy and the only 2 issues for now are to have her eyes checked because of the exotropia ( eyes going out occassionally) and to get her hearing tested.. just to make sure that she is not talking because of an issue with her hearing. She seems to not have a problem because she does respond and do the things we ask her but it will be good to make sure. She is in the minus 3 percent but we are not at all worried because so many of our children are just tiny in stature but huge in heart and effort.... she got some shots like Andrew and we will do some blood work. We got an air hockey board from Sams Club on Friday and she loves it... as you can tell. Andrew is eating more as I offer it... a typical breakfast for him is an egg, a piece of bread, a banana with some yougart and milk and rice or oatmeal cereal.. all of it is ground up and eaten in 2 bottles. Lunch is 2 pieces of meat, a baked potatoe, a slice of bread, vegetables and fruit with some spoons of cottage cheese with milk fed in 2 bottles. Dinner is ground up what we eat and then usually a sweeter bottle of a banana with animal crackers, applesauce and milk... so he is eating lots of calories ..just all thru the bottles... we will be at the cleft clinic team all day on Monday at Johns Hopkins... when I called last week they told me to bring him right in.... praise God for knowing our doctors so well. He will see many specialists on that team and we should find out some ways to help our little guy even more. He is doing well... we are weaning him off of the seizure medicine per our pediatrician and neurologist suggestion and he is doing well with that.

It amazes me how well the family is doing with the new ones... often Andrew is being held or played with by many siblings and I hear "I just love him or I am so glad you got him mommy." All the kids come around Gracie to help her or include her and she is loving the attention... Mya got a pair of princess slippers for her birthday.. and Gracie loves them... so does Ava.. so I will have to find some more for my little girls. Funny how they pick up on high heel shoes.. even Mya clops in them with her fixator on...

We had fun at Chuckie Cheese celebrating Ava, Mya and Paw Paw's b-day