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| 19-month-old comfort after his first bath and meal |
Last week I shared with you that we received 7 babies in 7
days. I have written 335 blogs since we
moved to Africa in 2012, one every single Saturday morning, without fail, but
last Saturday’s seems to have struck a chord with many of you because it became
my 2nd most read blog of ALL time in just 7 days. I have wondered all week what it was that made you share it more?
“7 babies in 7 days” (read at: https://janinemaxwell.blogspot.com/2018/10/7-babies-in-7-days.html) had 9,300 reads in 7
days. Coincidence? Or just lucky #7?
Last week I also shared with you about us picking up little baby whom we have
named “Comfort”. He is 19-months-old and
is the size of a 5-month-old. He was
found living with his 90-year-old Great Grandmother and was literally starving
to death. Yesterday our Social worker,
Margie, sent me a photo of Comfort, only 10 days after arriving at Project
Canaan, with the caption, “Baby Comfort after 10 days of good food and lots of love. He’s crawling and smiling often!”
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| Happiness bringing toys for Comfort |
I was at the airport in Chicago when I read that and saw his
photo and almost burst in to tears.
And do you know what made it even better?? I was working on child sponsorship updates to
send to every person who sponsors one of our children and Margie also told me
that our baby girl named “Happiness”, who is ONLY 13-month-old, was very quick to welcome the “new guy”
and has deliberately spent her time moving over to sit beside Comfort, bringing
him special toys and making sure that he feels welcome. He is being COMFORTED by the Comforter,
through another baby who was loved back to life this past year. Unbeknownst to
me, that is common behavior for Happiness when a new baby arrives at the El Roi
Baby Home. That to me is the hand of God working right in front of our eyes,
daily.
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| Child sponsorship donor update |
From last week’s 9,300 blog reads and shares approximately 15 of our our children have been newly sponsored! THANK YOU to those of you who said “YES” and
took action and joined us. We are still
very much behind on funding for the 29 children who have arrived this year, so
I am asking again (still) for your help.
If you read this blog regularly, or if it’s your first time,
please consider sponsoring one of our children today. You can make a one time gift or sign up to
give monthly.
In the US: bit.ly/ProjectCanaanChildrenAngel
In Canada: bit.ly/ProjectCanaanChildrenAngelCA
We can’t save all the children in eSwatini who are in
desperate need of help, but we do our very best to help those who are brought
to us through Social Welfare with the police and hospitals who see the
desperate need every single day.
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| Peace and Comfort share the exact same birth date. |
Janine
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