Kieren's Visit to Doctor Monday

Hello everyone!

Wanted to update you with the happenings of Kieren's visit to the hospital today to see the doctor and have her dressings changed. We had an appointment in a clinic in the Red Cross hospital (where Kieren has stayed, but in a different area) at 11:30. We waited in a room for a long time with many other mommas and babies and slowly had Kieren's dressings taken off and she was cleaned. Until that time, Kieren had been a great mood and even playing with other children and exploring the waiting room. But once I took her into the dressing room (where 2 other children were also being worked on and were screaming) she started screaming and crying and really didn't stop much the rest of the visit. It's such a difficult thing because she is obviously just traumatized by this accident, and especially hates being poked and prodded at the hospital. Later, when we finally were able to see the doctor (one of the same ones we have been seeing the past two weeks) she noticeably scared and upset to see him. After her dressing was taken off, we had to wait to see doctor and her wounds were wrapped in plastic wrap. This was problematic because the wounds were itchy and then began to bleed as she moved. Uggh, it was just bad, and as I asked a nurse for help, they re-wrapped her (annoyed) and rolled their eyes asking why I hadn't brought a blanket for her. MY FIRST TIME TO THAT CLINIC! So eventually we saw doctor and he continues to be encouraged by her progress - especially the healing in her face which looks great - PRAISE! However, they are still concerned by her chest and will give her another week to heal on her own, and if it does not then they will do a skin graft. AS I continue to appeal, we would LOVE your prayers for this because we really don't want further surgery! Pray for a full and complete healing for Kieren. Eventually, with the help of a family who understood this whole process so much better than I, Kieren was wrapped up again and I could finally take my exhausted daughter home. I think the whole think took about 4-5 hours in the clinic.

So obviously there is so much to be thankful for - we are seeing major progress and healing in Kieren's body and burns and even her opening up again to have the same spirit and joy that she had before the accident. God is DEFINITELY at work! However, there are a couple things that weighed heavy on my heart today. The first is that it is SO hard to continue to be served at this State hospital because you just wait and wait and wait and it's hard for these kids who are suffering! Which obviously makes it hard for us moms! And it's not just my white baby who struggles, but all the kids really struggle to wait so long. It's just the way it is for so many all over the world who don't have private health care, and SOME even don't have health care options at all!! It is such an eye-opener in so many ways, and I am thankful that we can receive care at all. But still, it's just a hard thing for all there and I wish we didn't have to go through all this. The second thing that is weighing even heavier is the WAY we are treated at this hospital. I don't really want to harp on this too long because I don't want to focus negatively on anything (it's a good time in life to stay positive), but we honestly feel that we are treated very poorly by the staff at the hospital in an unfair way. We feel that it is possibly because we are white and most of the staff is coloured (black and white mixed race) because the blacks in the hospital are also treated very poorly, while it seems not to be the case for the coloured patients. I even hesitate to write this, but I honestly just want to ask for prayer. Once again I was treated rudely by the staff today (a couple people who also work in the burn ward and have been rude to us before) and it brought me to tears and despair. I am honestly NOT a cry-er but I cry every time I am at that hospital and feel like it is adding unnecessary pain to an already traumatic experience. We would like an opportunity to speak to someone at the hospital about it in a respectful way, so that we can help others not to also be hurt.

Today I have been reflecting on this treatment and having a new place of understanding for my friends who have also been treated poorly simply because of the color of their skin. OBVIOUSLY I cannot truly relate from one place where I am treated badly, but the amount of pain it has brought gives me a new perspective into something I am already passionate about. I am thankful to know my true identity in Jesus Christ that makes all equal, free, and beloved because of who God has created us to be. Please pray for us as we continue on this interesting and challenging path!

Galatians 3:26-28
"You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, or all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

Lots of love,
Sarah

Weekend Update

Hello!

I updated some great pics and videos from our wonderful weekend, but thought I would also give a quick update about Kieren too! She has made some great steps as of Monday, which was so nice to see. Saturday was a harder day for her, and she was very overwhelmed at my 30th birthday party, which was hard. But she just went to bed early and we had a great time! Somehow we didn't take even ONE picture, but we did have 50 of our favorite people packed in our little house to celebrate. We had TONS of food thanks to some Ocean View friends and had a great time together. I felt very loved and it was just special to be with people that have become such an important part of our lives here. Sunday was a much better day, as we started out with taking Kieren to church and had a wonderful morning with our church family there. Everyone was so happy to see Kieren with her face bandages off and they cried along with me as I shared a testimony of the events of the past two weeks. They are a special group of people and God continues to bind us closer and closer. We rested for most of the day, just hanging around with our little friends playing soccer and watching soccer on tv. Then in the evening we took Kieren to Hillsong Church and she went back to Kids' Church for the first time! The children's ministry has been SO supportive with cards and prayers and love through this journey and they were so excited to have her back. She has been very timid, fearful, and clingy over the past two weeks, and cried when I passed her to others in the nursery, but did GREAT all evening with them! It was such a PRAISE! Church was wonderful, but the best part was that afterwards we had SO MANY people celebrating how great Kieren looked and how much she has healed. It meant so much to have them all share in the joy of what God has done and was even a great reminder to us. Wow, they are really wonderful. Then we went to dinner with a big group of people and Kieren played and ate the whole night. She is definitely turning a corner and we are daily seeing more of our little sweet girl.

Looking forward to a great week!
Lots of love,
Sarah

Congrats Kate and Mark!

We were so happy to celebrate the wedding of our wonderful friends here Kate and Mark this past weekend! They had a beautiful and unique ceremony and a blast of a reception. We had Granny Jacoba watching Kieren and so got to really enjoy an afternoon that went late into the night with some of our favorite friends. Congratulations to Kate and Mark!

The second happiest couple!

Casey and our great friend, Michael Jenkins

Casey and Wayne being 'cute'

The boys: Casey, Michael, Mike, and Wayne

Beautiful Kate and the girls, Meg, Laurel, Ashley, and me!

Women's Rally in Capricorn township

On Saturday, we had another fun outing with my lovely women from Ocean View. We were invited to a women's rally in another township called Capricorn and asked to share from our group. The church is called Sharon Assemblies of God and it's a new partner church of Ubuntu Sports. The women were really excited about the trip and 30 women paid themselves to travel and be a part of the day. So special! We had a great time, were encouraged, and hopefully were able to also encourage what God is doing among those women! I love these great women and feel so blessed to be a part of what God is doing among us!!

Love,
Sarah

'Restoration' music group from Ocean View Methodist. Great friend Danielle singing 'Voice of Truth'


Restoration singing 'Voice of Truth'


Here are many of the women in Capricorn dancing to one of the songs. They would finish dancing for a song, sit down, and then get up again to dance to next song. Like 6 times!!


Video of dancing, singing, and joyous music at Women's Rally. Watch out for the one lady dancing!

Happy Saturday

Hello friends and family!

It's Saturday morning and I am enjoying a quiet time alone in the house - WOW, this NEVER happens! Casey has taken Kieren to the hospital to have her wounds dressed again and check in with the doctor. Things are looking good with doctor and daily we are seeing improvements for Kieren. Her face is no longer bandaged and they have even washed her hair when they change and clean her dressings! The burns on her face are healing and she is gaining more pigment and color in her cheeks again. The burns on her chest are still not healed and we are continuing our prayers for their healing. The daily improvement is soothing and encouraging and it seems for all of us that normal life is happening more and more. We do notice that Kieren is more timid and fearful then she was before, which is hard to see. I think she just is traumatized from the accident, not around hot water or in the kitchen, but just overall in her life. She is very clingy to Casey and I, but also in that we see growth daily.

On Friday night we were able to celebrate the wedding of our great friends here Kate Newman and Mark Chittendon. Kate came to South Africa a couple years ago from Chicago to work with Living Hope and Mark is from Zimbabwe and here doing visual arts. They are a wonderful couple and I have grown close with Kate. We had a BLAST yesterday at their gorgeous and chic wedding in the center of Cape Town and then reception in a local place called 'The Foodbarn' with all our friends. What a great way to have a good time together!

Looking forward to a great weekend ahead!
Lots of love,
Sarah

Hello friends and family!

I am so sorry we have been a bit slow on the updates this week. It's been VERY busy and even has had a bit of celebrating with my 30th birthday and our 8-year anniversary on Tuesday! Whew - lots to be thankful for, and Casey and I even got to go out to a nice dinner Wednesday night together. Very special.

The week has been pretty busy as we have been home nursing Kieren to health and so it requires a bit more time and energy. The journey is very slow but we ARE seeing improvements in Kieren's burns which is a HUGE PRAISE! We have gone the the hospital to see doctors and get her burns re-dressed almost daily but were thankful to stay home and have a break today. Yesterday Kieren and I waited for a long time and finally were able to see the main 'professor' and our doctor along with about 10 medical students. They made note of Kieren's improvements - her face is looking healed although red, sensitive, and dry (all which is normal). Her neck is also healing well which means she has the bandages off her head - we can see ALL of her sweet face and hair! It's such a gift to her and us! The doctors still continue to have some concern about some spots of the burn on her chest, as they are healing slower than they would like. They continue to talk about the possibility of skin grafts (where they take a piece of skin from one part of her body and put it on wounds) but will not make a decision until 14-21 days after burn. So we still have time for God to heal our baby and that is our prayer! We truly believe that God is going to heal ALL the parts of the burn so she won't need a graft, and really don't want her to have that extra pain and scars. Please join us in prayer! Kieren's moods have been better and she is obviously feeling better. This morning her and I just ate breakfast, played, and got ready for the day - LIKE NORMAL! She is still in some pain, a bit wobbly, and moves slow, but we are beginning to see more of her smiles and hear her beautiful laughs. It's incredible. Granny Jacoba and I were talking today about how she is noticeably more timid then usual and has a fear that wasn't there before, so we are seeing after-effects of the trauma. Please also pray that God would fully restore her joy and take away this emotional trauma!

Casey and I also slowly returning to normal life, even though we both still feel we are in a sleepy fog. We haven't been getting enough sleep as Kieren has struggled to sleep at night (although last night she slept STRAIGHT THROUGH the night!! Praise!), so we are just tired physically and still worn out emotionally. However, we claim each new step and day and have been really focused on God and supporting each other through this. We are stronger than ever - work that God had been doing in our marriage in the months leading up to this accident and we are seeing the fruit for sure! So also be praying for our recover, also something that will take a while, but we know it will happen. Overall, we are just encouraged by Kieren's progress, and even more, encouraged by our God as He continues to lift us up and give us hope for all that will still happen!

Lots of love,
Sarah

Casey is Published!

Casey has a connection and now 'working relationship' with a great organization in the US called 'Simply Youth Ministry' that comes out of Saddleback Church in California. They have a weekly newsletter where they include articles from youth ministers in their network. TWO WEEKS IN A ROW they have published our Casey! Check them out at the links below!

"You Need Community"

"Simple Youth Ministry"

Book Review: Forgotten God

I received "Forgotten God: Reversing our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit" by Francis Chan in a care package a few months back. I was a huge fan of "Crazy Love" so I was really excited to read Chan's new offering.
It didn't disappoint and actually came on the heels of many things we had been discovering lately. Sarah and I have been doing a lot of discovery about the Holy Spirit and his involvement in our lives. We are realizing that we need Him more and more if we are going to be effective in the environment that we have been called. There is just too much against us to try and do it alone. I even wrote on my 2010 goals, "getting more in touch with the power of the Spirit." So, in lots of ways this book put words to lots of things that we have been dealing with and thinking through.
It really is a great look into an area that most Christians are missing out on. They are missing the power of the Spirit in their life and thus are living a really lessened experience with God. If we will allow the power and activity of the Spirit we will see amazing thing happen in and around us. We are starting to see that more and more in our walks with God.
I really want you guys to pick this book up. I know that I'm going to read it again in a few months because it deserves review. It's not long, and easy to read, I know you'll love it.
Overall Grade: A- (It's harsh to add the minus, but comparing it to Crazy Love has to drop it down one notch.)

Casey

Lessons Learning...

Over the last couple of months we have put a couple of quotes on the blog from a book called "Friendship at the Margins" by our 'friend' Chris Heuertz. We hadn't actually read the book yet, because we couldn't buy it in South Africa, but we knew we were going to love it. With the recent arrival of new Ubuntu volunteers we finally received the book. I just started reading yesterday, and haven't finished reading the introduction, but it helped me realize something.
Our focus in living in Ocean View is so that we can develop real and authentic friendships with people that are poor, struggling, and in need of hope. We didn't want to be the Christian people that come in, offer something to help, and then take off to our safe environment. You can't build real friendships that way. And we used to say that we wanted to be there for people in the beautiful and hard times in life. We wanted to be at weddings, funerals, graduations, when somebody got a new job, when somebody was abused by their husband; we want to be there for the best and worst parts of life.
Well, the tables were turned last week in an instant. Suddenly that really hard part of life was happening to us. But that's not how it was supposed to be, we were supposed to be there for them. The beautiful part of this story is that the friendships we have built since October allowed the "donor-recipient" roles (as Heuertz calls them) to be reversed. Our community here has been able to pray for us, provide us with meals, and serve us in other ways. Had we worked in Ocean View, but lived elsewhere the friendships wouldn't have been deep enough to allow that to happen. There would have been too much distance.
Yes, most of what happens here is us loving, serving, and empowering them; but often, and especially in this case, the roles were reversed and they were doing it for us. So, I'm thankful that God showed me that. There have been many blessings to come out of this whole struggle, but this is one of them. Our ministry in Ocean View is stronger and our relationships are deeper because of what happened to Kieren. We aren't removed or above the people of Ocean View. In many ways we are ONE of them. We have come with a unique set of skills, passions, and calling that will help build the community, but we are only part of what God is doing to build that community.
I know that God is going to teach us so much more through reading the book. To think I already got revelation and I haven't even started! What's going to happen when I get into the meat of it!?!? Be looking for a review of it really soon!

Casey

Weekend Update

Hello!

Gosh, the idea of attempting to sum up the thoughts, feelings, and happenings of even this past weekend are pretty daunting! Really, the events weren't too strange, we really just hung out at home most of the time with our dear Kier-Kier and tried to love her really well, but we were blessed with many people surrounding us, feeding us, and believing for the great things ahead. A few highlights were Saturday night which was PACKED with sports watching and so we invited some friends over (who brought a GREAT Mexican feast to comfort us!). We hung out with some of our favorite friends, laughed, watched sports, and Kieren enjoyed it all. Sunday we had a good visit to the hospital, as Casey already blogged about, rested the afternoon away and went to Hillsong church at night. It was a worship night and at one point the pastor, Phil Dooley asked people to come forward who wanted healing. I came front, both for my own migraine headaches that we continue to pray about, and for our sweet Kieren. Phil saw me (he and his wife Lucinda visited us this week in the hospital) and prompted the entire church into a time of prayer for our Kieren. It was humbling and beautiful. We just continue to be beyond grateful for our community here and the extraordinary ways they are loving us through this ordeal.

For myself, what I have noticed most of all about this weekend is that as we have returned home and begin to think about normal life, I have begun to have a flood of different emotions about the happenings of this past week. In short, it has been trauma not only for me, but for Kieren. We all know that I am a 'feeler' anyways, but wow, this was truly a week of more feelings than I have ever had in my life. There are some moments that stand out and that I find myself beginning to work through. One is in the first hospital when Kieren been there just a short time and they were trying to get a reading on her heartbeat and oxygen levels in her body. Her limbs were ice cold and they could not get a reading, and when they did the oxygen levels were alarmingly low, causing them to rush in a group of doctors and nurses, take her to trauma room in hospital, and transfer her to Red Cross hospital for ICU observation. It's not so much what the medical people were saying, it was the look in that one nurse's eyes. She was alarmed. Then there were so many hard moments in the hospital, I mean just the first full day when if Kieren was awake she was screaming and writhing in pain, and that even while under heavy sedatives and morphine. As a parent, I am not sure if there is anything more excruciating to see your child in that much pain, second to losing that child. We also really struggled with the nursing and security staff at the hospital who grew weary of our many visitors which resulted in some very negative interactions. I was in a deeply fragile state and these looks and comments broke me (we DID speak with nursing staff later that day and worked through misunderstandings). It's hard to even describe the hospital, but I will say it's a STATE hospital and nothing like any hospital I have seen in America. They lack funding and staff, but TRULY the doctors are incredible there and the best in treating burns in South Africa. Then it's been just the grieving and questions. Will these scars show up when Kieren wears her wedding dress? Thinking about and longing for my happy and beautiful Kieren. Realizing I wrote a facebook status update recently with a picture of Kieren saying "Happiness is Kieren's face." Grieving for Kieren's pain, for the time taken, that the accident had to happen, that we hold vanity as something important in the first place so we are so sad when it's threatened.

And then there is God in all this. We KNOW God is in all this, and have clung to Him in a way we have never in our entire lives. He has blessed us abundantly with a community that is holding us up and literally helping us to make it through each moment of the day. His Holy Spirit continually breathes new life into us and takes us from despair to hope many times a day. We believe even when we can't see. But it's hard.

So this weekend, some of these things began to surface, and it's painful. It's just going to be a long process, and I can't imagine going through this alone. How do people keep walking through their lives when they face a tragedy like this without God. He is all we have, and He is truly ALL WE NEED.

Thanks for listening and letting me share the honesty of these moments. I believe sharing even the dark times will give God even GREATER GLORY when Kieren is fully healed and we see these times only as memories. Let's believe it together.

Lots of love,
Sarah

What He Said...

Andy Chenlo, has been our Ubuntu intern for this first year of our time here ministering in South Africa. He is an American student on a gap year between graduating high school and starting college; he will begin at NC State this coming fall. Andy lives with a family in Ocean View and has become a 'fixture' in this place - EVERYONE loves Andy (or as in the case of the ladies, are IN love with him!). He is a special person with an incredible heart and a passion for God and people. He loves the kids who play at our house very well, but also can discipline and teach them in profound ways. People are already in mourning about Andy leaving in a month (he travels home with us to America in July) and truly, we also can't imagine our lives here in Ocean View without him. I caught up on some blogs this morning and read Andy's blog highlighting Kieren's accident and the beauty of prayer and love through crisis. So you can go to the link below to read his blog, and yeah... what he said.

Andy Chenlo Blog

Lots of love,
Sarah

"Healing is in YOUR Hands"

As I have been spending time at home and things are beginning to slow down just a bit, I am beginning to process and think through what God has brought us through this past week. A few weeks ago a covenant group from our church at home, Grace Community, sent us the new Passion worship cd, and it's been in the car. I hadn't really gotten a chance to listen to it much, but it played as I drove from the hospital for my first shower and nap on Tuesday after the accident. The song "Healing is in Your Hands" came on by Christy Nockels. This song turned into my declaration and prayer for the week, and will still remain. It takes themes from Romans 8 which tells us that we are more than conquerors over anything because we are loved by God, and we fight through HIS power. These truths have never been more profound before, and I grasped onto them with all my might. "No matter where I stand, healing is in your hands."

Healing has been in the hands of you, oh God, we see all that you have done, give you all the glory, and look ahead to the healing yet to be seen by our earthly eyes.

Kieren Update- Sunday

We recently arrived home from Kieren's appointment back at the hospital. She will have to go back every couple of days to have her "dressings" redone. They were in need, too, because she had been pulling on them so they were falling apart a bit.
They seemed pleased with the progress her face is already making. It seems like her healing their will be full. Her body has a few spots that they are worried about where maybe the Bio-brane didn't take hold like they had hoped. They even mentioned possibly wanting to do skin grafts. We are praying against that! We don't want her to have to have any more surgery and also don't want other parts of her body to have 'burns'. They say they will wait another 7-14 days to see how things are naturally healing, so please join us in praying that her natural healing (at the Hands of God) will be more than enough!
This time they wrapped her face less so you can see her much better. It will allow us to see her smile and laugh better! It also just reminds you who is under all those bandages. You begin to think the full mummy look IS your little girl. But it's not. There is a beautiful blonde baby under there! She even has a few hairs showing now. I'm hoping the new look will make her more comfortable, too. Now we have to put lots of cream on some small scabs on her face and keep things 'greased' up so that she doesn't get itchy and scratch open the wounds. Pray for that, too, that she won't be itchy.
So, though we are home, there is still a long road ahead and we still desperately seek your prayers.
We are doing pretty well as a family and have amazing people around us that are willing to help. I'm so thankful for them. I can notice that my fatigue is finally catching up with my attitude, so I'm hoping that will change soon. Otherwise I will strangle almost every kid in this community! We don't want that!
Thanks for all the prayers so far, they have been holding us up through all of this.

Casey

Home SWEET Home!

Hello everyone!

Yes! I am writing this blog update from my house in Ocean View, on my own couch, in my own clothes, as Kyle and one of our new Ubuntu interns, Ben play X-box and Kieren takes a second deep nap in her OWN crib. PRAISE! We got discharged this morning and couldn't be happier. The doctors were amazed and very pleased by Kieren's progress in the past 24 hours as her swelling went down, she opened her eyes, started walking, playing, and obviously was feeling much better. They opened her dressing today, checked her wounds, and decided she was ready to go home. She is still bandaged up like a little mummy, with only eye slits and mouth slit on her face, but you can see the beauty of this sweet girl anyways. Casey and I were talking about how somehow, even though most of her body is bandaged up, she is still as cute as ever! We brought her home, she slept the whole way and two hours in her bed on arrival. I think she just missed being at home and feels so at peace being back! Then we fed her a bit and took her outside to see her 'friends.' This was actually much hardened then I envisioned it in my mind, because the kids and people of the community have already begun to crowd around her with google eyes of pain and sadness. Uggh, it's just hard to have everyone STARE at her, and shudder at her pain. I am just so glad that she doesn't UNDERSTAND how they are looking at her, but I think it hurts me a bit. I keep reminding myself that the mummy look is temporary and she will be back to her beautiful self soon. It makes you question your desire for vanity, even for your kids, and definitely challenges me to question how I look at others. Is beauty really deeper than just what we see on the outside? For Kieren it surely is, but I know God is teaching me this lesson among SO many.

Kieren was a bit overwhelmed with all the people and new surroundings to get use to, so she was a bit whiny, but I passed her on to her granny, who was happy to sit with her outside and help her adjust. She quickly did and loved watching all the happenings of our yard today. Jacoba even put her in the stroller, which she loves, and she eventually fell asleep there until Jacoba transferred her to her crib for another nap. Sweet, sweet Kieren. We are praying for more miraculous recovery by the day and for her to adjust to her new life with the bandages and pain.

For me, I am doing okay, but recognizing that as we are moving out of survival mode, I am going to need to work through many different thoughts and feelings. It has been a traumatic experience for me as well. I do not have ANY guilt about the burns, I know they were completely an accident, but just the sadness of seeing Kieren in pain and the heaviness of days in a hospital nursing her to health has been incredibly difficult. I have never, EVER had to lean on God and His strength in the way I have this week. As we drove into our home of Ocean View this morning, in some ways it seemed like we never left, but at the same time I feel like a completely different person. The Prince's will never be the same, I am know and trust it's only for the better. God is working ALL these things for His good and I continue to see MANY of His scriptures come alive in our world. I have had many friends who are mothers reach out to me during this week, knowing that this accident has affected me in a personally emotional way, and it is true. But God is walking with me through every feeling and thought and will also HEAL me in every way. I take great comfort in our God and feel His mighty hands upon me.

Thanks for the continued prayers family - how God has bonded US together in an extraordinary way even across the world!

Lots of love,
Sarah

Kiers Thurs afternoon

Hello!

I am sitting in the 'lounge' of the hospital as Kieren naps and just wanted to check in. We have had a great day here. The doctor checked her burns and they are healing well. They wanted to still keep her because of swelling in the face and body, took out all the tubes that were holding us in our room - PRAISE! We have played with her in the lounge today, she has walked a bit, played with toys, smiled and even laughed (although it sounds like an old man smoker's cough). She is definitely healing more today and the results are very visible. It's so encouraging. The challenge of the day was with the staff, nurses, and security here as they have gotten fed up with all our visitors - they had no idea the army the Prince's would bring into this place! They have been short with us at times, and my fatigue has taken their rebukes personally, but we had a great talk with the head nurse who wants to work with us but also has to protect the other kids. Great to talk with them and have an understanding. I was a bit heartbroken when Granny Jacoba came this morning and they wouldn't let her see Kieren, but I know she will see her soon. Casey and I got to escape to the B&B for a nap while the head of the pastoral care at Hillsong came and watched Kieren. I tell you what, that church has it's stuff together! They have loved us SO WELL! Some of our Oceanview Methodist peeps came here today too which was great. We are encouraged, exhausted, but held up by our God. It is amazing to me that every time I reach a time when I come to the end of myself and feel that I can't do it any longer, God jumps in and restores me and holds us up. He has been very present and faithful and we continue to give all the praise.

Keep the prayers coming! We pray for more healing for Kieren and a deep night's sleep for even more healing.

Lots of love,
Sarah