The Journey Continues !

Friends,

Its been a long time since i last updated my blog, and we want to take this opportunity to thank each one of you for the love care and support that you gave us last year 2009 in July and August when our precious Daughter Melanie went to be with the Lord , we are so thankful for all that you did. We just want to encourage you with this scripture Job 1:20-22, and also 2 Sam 12:19-23, and let you know this is not our Home and we are Guests , and that one day to all those who believe , we will go and be with our Father and we are all looking forward to seeing our Daughter again , so be encouraged and keep up the good fight !

We had a privilege to visit this last year the US and our home Alabama (Birmingham ) and we spent our time with our kids , visited several friends, enjoyed Christmas and also visited the place where Melanies old house was kept , Mark our 8 year old , had a tough time , but it was good for him to know , and Martha our 4 year old could not get it very well , but she was fine after some time.

We have enjoyed seeing what the Lord is doing in our lives and the impact in many communities in Uganda ! we have few Friends who are visiting to be Missionaries with Bridge Africa International Jay and Allen and we are looking forward to spending this year with them every day as we help coordinate all the Teams that will be visiting with us this year 2010. Be on the look out for our new web site coming up this year and for the updates.

We thank God for Asbury United methodist Church and for their love for what we are doing in Uganda and we are looking forward to seeing few friends from there in July led by Suzanne Owen.

Will be giving more updates as we have taken long without updating our blog, we love you and pray for you all every day !

Patrick , Sarah, Mark and Martha and the Bridge Family .

Follow up Melanies Journey

This is the web site you can share with Friends , regarding Melanies Journey to Surgery,
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/babymelanie.

Make sure that you share this with Friends .

Melanie off to Alabama !

Friends, today just sen off Melanie , Sarah and the Nurse, we had a great time at Church as the whole Church stood and trusted God for healing and sending her off in Power, the family visited and they prayed for Melanie, we are so grateful for all the prayers that many people have prayed, we thank God that Melanie was eligible to fly as she was cleared by the Doctor .

Am staying home with Mark and Martha , and preparing for the days when i was a bachelor, friends keep praying.

We thank God for all our Friends in the US who God has used to help Melanie get a better life, thank you Life Line Children services for your love and care, Mr. Mark Bond thank you for your wonderful net work, and Doctor Robert Dabal of the University of Alabama Medical Center, and many people who have been involved in making every detail come together, we are praying that the God of Heaven will bless each one of you.

Will be getting you more details as we go along , for now i have to plan to put Mark and Martha to bed .

Below is Melanie and her cousins, and Friends leaving home for the air port.

UP DATE ON MELANIE

Friends,

Thanks for praying, Melanie, Sarah and the Nurse will be traveling to Birmingham Alabama, this Friday , where Melanie will get to see the Professor of Pediatrics, be praying fo rthem as they travel, and the time they willbe gone, that His Name will be Glorified.

We left the Hospital by faith, we have been home for the last two days, it was like a Miracle, friends the air you breath is a miracle, we noticed that more clearly when Melanie was on support Machine, we pray that he will take charge even if they have to do the surgery, we feel as parents its the best thing to do for her to have a better life .


We need your support in all possible ways, prayer, finances , visits will be very appreciated, will get you the contact information for Sarah while she is in Alabama.

Will be staying home, with Mark and Martha, and will be the Dad and Mom, but we dream to visit them before they return home, with smiling faces.

Thank you for all your efforts ,love , care that you have showed us during this testing time, we hope and pray that the lord will use this time to his Glory.


On another note , we have few teams coming through, we have the Generation adoptions, on ground, just saw off one family that has just adopted a child from here, and we have Rocky Peak coming in two weeks, the New life Church from Gahana Ohio, the Carolines Promise team, and teh first Presbytarian Church Houston, we thank God for all those people that have dedicated their lives to serve Jesus in Africa.

Please watch this space for updates on Melanie and Missions coming !

Update on Melannie

Hello Friends,


We thank God for the last few days, we are still at the hospital, Melannie got Malaria and a very high fever, and throwing up, in the last few hours , but she is doing much better after getting the treatment, feeding well, and get better , am not sure when we are leaving the hospital , i hope soon, but the most important thing is for Melanie to get better.


We are still trusting the lord to take her for surgery, also trusting the lord for a Miracle, any body there who knows a cardiology surgeon , we would use your help, we would love to take her to the US for this.

Its getting late after mid night and i have to have few hours of rest , will write more tomorow.

Melannie wired with Oxygen !!

This is when Melannie was still on Oxygen , keep praying for her , your prayers will make a big difference, confess Jeremiah 29;11 in her life ! keep praying for paper work

Melannie off Oxygen, keep praying for the paper work fir Surgery.

Friends, we thank God today that we wake up to a miracle, atleast Melannie is off Oxygen and pray that the air we breath, will sustain her till our Lord comes back.

This means that she may not need Oxygen when we flys for the Surgery, friends pray for another Miracle, that when they go for the surgery the Doctors will do another Echo, and find out that she may not need SURGERY, if she does then the lord will take over the Surgery. wait for a photo before the oxygen was off.