It started with a bible study. As we work with a church this past week, we have had the privilege and honor of sharing our stories from this past year. We have had many chances to bring glory to Christ’s name because of all he has done and all he is doing all over the world.
At the first bible study, we met a woman named Eva who had two very active boys running around. Eva was there with her mother Ella. They have been coming to the bible study for a little while. After the four of us had shared for a half hour about our experiences, Ella told us that her and Eva were very encouraged by what we had said. She told is they had been praying for a while about the youngest boy who is 2 1/2 and through what we said, they knew what they needed to do.
When they started the study part, the boys were just being boys, running around and having fun. You could tell Eva was longing to hear and be apart of the study. But her boys didn’t seem to want anyone else playing with them (including the strange American who couldn’t say a word in their language.)
Despite my attempts to help, Victor and Bartek (who I call Patrick) didn’t want anything to do with me.
But in that time I really felt lead to pray with Eva and her mother. It was obvious there were some hardships in her life and that she was struggling with something.
(Eva) When the bible study was over, the four of us women gathered around Eva and Ella to pray with them. In that time, we found out that Bartek has a problem with his aortic valve. There is a place where the walls of the valve are too skinny, making it very difficult to get blood through. Thus, causing him to have high blood pressure. He is to have surgery in two weeks that will cut out the part that is too skinny and connect the sides together.
We had the opportunity to go and see the family again the next morning. After spending more time with them, and being able to pray with them again, we decided we wanted to make a prayer blanket and a book full of promises, scriptures, and prayers. So we spent an afternoon working on them.
Yesterday morning we got to go see them for a short time and tell them goodbye. After we gave them the blanket, the boys played with it the whole time: hiding under it and playing peek-a-boo, covering us with it, dragging it all over the house. We never thought they would love it so much.
Please pray for Eva, Bertek and their family. The last we heard, they are looking for a different doctor to do the surgery. There were some unsettling things that were happening with the scheduled doctor. It had been scheduled for two weeks from now.
After asking Eva if I could write this blog to ask people to pray for them…she couldn’t help but smile big and say, “yes, of course! Please, we would love as many people to pray as possible.”
Thanks for taking the time to pray for someone you don’t even know, and who is half way around the world!
