This is from the McCords. It clearly shows the burden that this family has begun to carry as they begin their time in the Philippines. They are in a spiritual battle there and need our prayers. With that in mind, I am setting forth Nehemiah 1: 6 “O Lord, let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open to her the prayer of Your servant”. Indeed, I am most certain that these missionaries and all the other believers that are going through this, are seeking the Lord, as are we. May He hear and answer their heartfelt prayers and petitions.
They have had a heartbreaking evening recently, as little Roselyn’s mom has passed away. You can learn more about Roselyn at http://www.PhilippineChildren.org/sponsor-a-child.html. They received an urgent request to come and help Roselyn’s mother who was feeling fine Monday, but fell into a coma with a high fever on Tuesday. They drove over an hour to a remote barangay. When they arrived all the family members were gathered apparently waiting for Felicidad the mother of our own little Roselyn, to die. Since no one would take responsibility and do anything for Roselyn’s mom, they asked her family to carry her in a blanket to the van while Craig said a prayer. Pastor Gene drove brilliantly as we all prayed, but by the time we got to the hospital she had already passed away right there in the van. Little Roselyn has had a hard life before she got to the Orphans Home. The level of poverty that her family lives in is incomprehensible to westerners. Even the bamboo shack they live in is not their own. When their food would run out, they often have to go house to house to beg for scraps. No person created in the image of God should have to live like that. Anyway, her little heart is broken and she has wept long and hard tonight for her mother, please be in prayer for her. Roselyn is only eleven and her deceased mother was only 31. I am sorry to say that Felicidad was not a believer and her relatives had just brought over a demonic albulario (spiritist healer) before we arrived. Sadly, last week, Felicidad’s family took her to the emergency room, but because they had no money they were turned away. This dear woman could probably have been saved if there was a way for the desperately poor to get medical help. Now these incredibly poor people are being asked to pay P17,000. pesos (about $350.) for a memorial service. I was already surprised to receive a bill from the hospital even though she was already dead when we arrived (almost $40. USD). Apparently there is a fee to be pronounced dead.
It just tears Craig up to see these precious little girls that they all have worked so hard to build a home for, heartbroken and in tears. It is a reminder that poverty, sickness, hard heartedness and death are still here and serious about destroying what God has given us to protect. Felicidad is not the first person Craig has watched dying. May he never lose the ache of death, may he never just accept it, may he never forget the sting and may he never sit quietly when someone needs to hear the Gospel, because the Gospel of Jesus is the only way past that heartbreak of physical death that ends in victory. In closing, please keep little Roselyn and her family in prayerat http://www.PhilippineChildren.org/sponsor-a-child.html. They received an urgent request to come and help Roselyn’s mother who was feeling fine Monday, but fell into a coma with a high fever on Tuesday. They drove over an hour to a remote barangay. When they arrived all the family members were gathered apparently waiting for Felicidad the mother of our own little Roselyn, to die. Since no one would take responsibility and do anything for Roselyn’s mom, they asked her family to carry her in a blanket to the van while Craig said a prayer. Pastor Gene drove brilliantly as we all prayed, but by the time we got to the hospital she had already passed away right there in the van. Little Roselyn has had a hard life before she got to the Orphans Home. The level of poverty that her family lives in is incomprehensible to westerners. Even the bamboo shack they live in is not their own. When their food would run out, they often have to go house to house to beg for scraps. No person created in the image of God should have to live like that. Anyway, her little heart is broken and she has wept long and hard tonight for her mother, please be in prayer for her. Roselyn is only eleven and her deceased mother was only 31. I am sorry to say that Felicidad was not a believer and her relatives had just brought over a demonic albulario (spiritist healer) before we arrived. Sadly, last week, Felicidad’s family took her to the emergency room, but because they had no money they were turned away. This dear woman could probably have been saved if there was a way for the desperately poor to get medical help. Now these incredibly poor people are being asked to pay P17,000. pesos (about $350.) for a memorial service. I was already surprised to receive a bill from the hospital even though she was already dead when we arrived (almost $40. USD). Apparently there is a fee to be pronounced dead.
It just tears Craig up to see these precious little girls that they all have worked so hard to build a home for, heartbroken and in tears. It is a reminder that poverty, sickness, hard heartedness and death are still here and serious about destroying what God has given us to protect. Felicidad is not the first person Craig has watched dying. May he never lose the ache of death, may he never just accept it, may he never forget the sting and may he never sit quietly when someone needs to hear the Gospel, because the Gospel of Jesus is the only way past that heartbreak of physical death that ends in victory. In closing, please keep little Roselyn and her family in prayer