| | Dear Friends,
March12, 2008 2:00 p.m.
Greetings from Greenville, South Carolina.
We have been enjoying meeting old friends and making new ones. God has blessed us with wonderful prayer and financial supporters and we are enjoying sharing what God has done in and through us in the last years.
Yesterday we visited the MUSC Children’s Hospital in Charleston, SC, where Ellie is hospitalized. Ellie is three, and the last of the foster children who lived with us in Liberia before this furlough.
Last week she had a surgery to put a “halo” on. This was used for the traction necessary to prepare her back for today’s surgery. Today Ellie is having a twelve hour surgery to stabilize her upper spine, severely damaged from tuberculosis which went into the bone. God in His mercy has already performed a miracle in that to this point she has been spared paralysis or death. Doctors who examine her various test results are baffled that she is not paralyzed and have no medical explanation.
A whole team of doctors and nurses are working on her even as we write this letter. She will be opened up in both the front and the back. Anything dealing with the spinal column is very, very serious. Ellie is receiving the best of care. We are asking you to pray with us that He would allow this surgery to be successful.
Ellie has been adopted into a wonderful Christian family and has a strong support system behind her. Her new parents and siblings covet your prayers. If you would like more information about Ellie and updates about her condition, her mother's blog is at http://deniseinsc.blogspot.com
We are humbled to be a small part of Ellie’s amazing story. God is so clearly in her life. Please pray with us that whatever the outcome, God will be glorified.
In Christ,
Mark and Nancy Sheppard
Serving with:
Baptist Mid-Missions
Box 308011
Cleveland, OH 44130
http://www.bmm.org
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