News on our Hospice and others
BNJ News November 2009
We have two really exciting pieces of news to share with you.
We have welcomed new baby Alex to our family this past month.
Photo of Alex 9 days old
Alex’s mum came to live with us from Pattaya, needing help to escape the lure of the sex industry three months ago. Our prayer is that she will settle here and love being part of our family, as she mothers her baby boy, Alex and that she will be content to leave her past life behind to start afresh. We need wisdom as we seek to help her with this adjustment.
Other exciting news is the progress that has been made in the past month on our hospice. With a team of workers from Adelaide, Australia we made huge progress, I will let the photo’s tell the story.
Our goal is to have the roof completed by end of November with the help of some Thai labourers. Then we need an electrician, plumber and tiler to help in the new year. It’s exciting seeing this project of many years coming near to completion. I personally would love to see the facility operational by this time next year. It’s a shame we need it but sadly it is true that many people in our area are dying of AIDS each day. We want to offer a place of peace and hope for people in their final stages of AIDS.
Our 2010 calendar is back from the printers, if you’d like one we’d be glad to supply that, as we’d love to sell all our calendars, they make a great Christmas gift at $10. Let us know if you’d like one, click reply on this email and order one or more, we will add postage cost and let you know how to pay, depending on which country you are from.
I also want to include a poem written by a nurse on our staff, for Mai, one of our little HIV+ girls.
Deep Eyes
Deep Eyes. They tell a story.
A past no longer talked about
Of sickness, of abuse, of desperate searching for more,
Of hunger, of pain.
Deep eyes. They tell a story
The disease has its grip. A curse, a sin
Passed down from generation and held within.
At times it lies dormant but always shows its power,
The control it has on an unwilling body.
Deep eyes. They tell a story.
Lost within, the hurt, the pain, the confusion.
Yet helpless? …..NEVER!
To give up would be the end
There must be more…….
Deep eyes.
They tell a story.
Holding onto hope. Hope of a body made new.
No more pain. No wore suffering. No more tears.
Where does this hope come from?
Something much bigger.
Deep eyes. They tell a story
Look up! Where doe your help come from?
Your help comes form the Lord!
The Maker of heaven and earth!
For Mai Girl
By Crystal Sutton
Photo of Mai taken by Crystal
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