Julie has had a good 24 hours with no new complications and some opportunity to sleep last night. On the other hand, I was able to only get two brief periods of sleep because of clearing out the apartment and taking care of final business to leave for Singapore; so I’m dragging.
It’s 3 pm and we leave for the SIL airport here in an hour. We will fly in one of SIL's planes with Julie in a special bed and arrive in Port Moresby, waiting for the arrival of the commercial medevac plane that will take us to Singapore. It should leave before midnight and arrive in Singapore somewhere around 4 am local time (total of about 7 hours flying). We will be taken directly to an excellent hospital where the doctors will begin a work up on Julie (including an MRI to see if there are any hidden problems). We will then learn what needs to be done, how, and how long we’ll be staying in Singapore. We have been told to expect 5-6 weeks! We don't know anyone in Singapore!
We’ve received so many more emails of encouragement than we could have imagined, even from people we’ve never met, thanks to so many of our friends and ministry partners sharing our situation with friends, church prayer lists, home Bible studies, etc. Thank you! One friend-who was working all night on our evacuation plan- even gave us a poem the Lord gave her for us between 3 and 4 a.m.. We’ll share it later.
There are so many unanswered questions and complications for events we’d planned for the next couple of months. We’re waiting to see what God has in mind for us, either learning, discipline or ministry opportunities.
Keep praying about the medical care we’re about to experience. Pray about the long and exhausting travel we’re about to go through. Also thank God for the wonderful community of believers here that were so eager to serve us in every way. I would say you’ll probably never see the Body of Christ function better than we’ve seen these past 24 hours.
Praise the Lord.
Jon
It’s 3 pm and we leave for the SIL airport here in an hour. We will fly in one of SIL's planes with Julie in a special bed and arrive in Port Moresby, waiting for the arrival of the commercial medevac plane that will take us to Singapore. It should leave before midnight and arrive in Singapore somewhere around 4 am local time (total of about 7 hours flying). We will be taken directly to an excellent hospital where the doctors will begin a work up on Julie (including an MRI to see if there are any hidden problems). We will then learn what needs to be done, how, and how long we’ll be staying in Singapore. We have been told to expect 5-6 weeks! We don't know anyone in Singapore!
We’ve received so many more emails of encouragement than we could have imagined, even from people we’ve never met, thanks to so many of our friends and ministry partners sharing our situation with friends, church prayer lists, home Bible studies, etc. Thank you! One friend-who was working all night on our evacuation plan- even gave us a poem the Lord gave her for us between 3 and 4 a.m.. We’ll share it later.
There are so many unanswered questions and complications for events we’d planned for the next couple of months. We’re waiting to see what God has in mind for us, either learning, discipline or ministry opportunities.
Keep praying about the medical care we’re about to experience. Pray about the long and exhausting travel we’re about to go through. Also thank God for the wonderful community of believers here that were so eager to serve us in every way. I would say you’ll probably never see the Body of Christ function better than we’ve seen these past 24 hours.
Praise the Lord.
Jon
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