We hope this posting isn’t as long as it feels. We simply want to keep you updated on how Julie and I are doing, so you can praise God and lift up some specific requests on our behalf.
We’re finding these hospital beds surprisingly uncomfortable so that we’re waking up in the middle of the night with backs that ache very badly. I actually had to get out of the bed before daylight, I was in such pain. The aches have continued through the day.
In addition Julie is feeling very tired and bruised, though encouraged by the doctor and physical therapist to move about the room with a walker every 3-4 hours. We’re thankful that Julie can get on her feet and place weight on her left leg when standing still. She can also shuffle her left leg along and move from the bed to a wheelchair. While moving us from the bedpan stage to the bathroom, it also gave me the chance to give Julie the grand tour of each floor of the hospital. We even wheeled outside briefly to the café and watched koi fish beg us for food. (They spurned us when we didn’t produce.)
Nothing the doctor has seen or heard seems to dissuade him from thinking we’ll be able to check out of the hospital early next week. He says it will be 8 weeks or more before Julie's bone has really healed yet it seems he is leaving the decision up to us when to leave Singapore after we check out of the hospital. When we feel Julie is mobile enough to avoid the sharp pains and cope with hours and hours of flying, we will leave.
God continues to bring other Christians into our lives. We understand that about 20% of the 5 million Singaporeans are Christians yet almost every person we meet is one. The doctor who deals with gastroenterology asked us what we were doing in PNG. Turns out he has been to PNG and knows much about Wycliffe and Bible translation.
We then received a visit from a pastor and his wife (he grew up in Singapore, she in Malaysia) who are friends of a family in Ukarumpa who alerted them about us. Jon will worship at their church (of 1,000) on Sunday, which has people from Singapore, Nepal, Korea, China, India, Malaysia, and some from European backgrounds. (Julie will worship in the hospital room.)
Our prayer request is that, as Psalm 139 echoes, God will knit Julie’s bones back together as He knit them together so long ago in her mother’s womb.
Under His care,
Jon and Julie
We’re finding these hospital beds surprisingly uncomfortable so that we’re waking up in the middle of the night with backs that ache very badly. I actually had to get out of the bed before daylight, I was in such pain. The aches have continued through the day.
In addition Julie is feeling very tired and bruised, though encouraged by the doctor and physical therapist to move about the room with a walker every 3-4 hours. We’re thankful that Julie can get on her feet and place weight on her left leg when standing still. She can also shuffle her left leg along and move from the bed to a wheelchair. While moving us from the bedpan stage to the bathroom, it also gave me the chance to give Julie the grand tour of each floor of the hospital. We even wheeled outside briefly to the café and watched koi fish beg us for food. (They spurned us when we didn’t produce.) Nothing the doctor has seen or heard seems to dissuade him from thinking we’ll be able to check out of the hospital early next week. He says it will be 8 weeks or more before Julie's bone has really healed yet it seems he is leaving the decision up to us when to leave Singapore after we check out of the hospital. When we feel Julie is mobile enough to avoid the sharp pains and cope with hours and hours of flying, we will leave.
God continues to bring other Christians into our lives. We understand that about 20% of the 5 million Singaporeans are Christians yet almost every person we meet is one. The doctor who deals with gastroenterology asked us what we were doing in PNG. Turns out he has been to PNG and knows much about Wycliffe and Bible translation.
We then received a visit from a pastor and his wife (he grew up in Singapore, she in Malaysia) who are friends of a family in Ukarumpa who alerted them about us. Jon will worship at their church (of 1,000) on Sunday, which has people from Singapore, Nepal, Korea, China, India, Malaysia, and some from European backgrounds. (Julie will worship in the hospital room.)
Our prayer request is that, as Psalm 139 echoes, God will knit Julie’s bones back together as He knit them together so long ago in her mother’s womb.
Under His care,
Jon and Julie
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