Dear friends,
Yesterday a reporter working for both the Jerusalem Post and the BBC World Service Radio religion program asked to come with us into Gaza to meet some of the little ones who are being rescued. While on the road together we received an urgent phone call: a two-month-old girl in the Khan Yunis hospital had just been diagnosed with a heart defect that could take her life at any moment.
We went to the hospital, and found an anxious mother waiting by the bed of her striking little girl named Riman ("two gazelles"). Despite her beatific countenance, the telltale patch of blue between Riman's eyes shows that she is starving for oxygen.
The emergency open-heart surgery which can save Riman is available only in Israel, and when we phoned doctors there we found them willing--indeed insistent--that we bring her to them immediately. They're asking us to help with $2500 toward the surgery, which normally costs over $12,000.
As the Lord leads, please consider sharing in the cost of Riman's life. Tomorrow morning, Thursday, Riman and mother are due to travel to Israel. Let's pray that when the journalist visits the Wolfson Medical Center with us on Monday, she will transmit to the world another picture: of redemption and reconciliation already accomplished in Jesus' name!
Yours sincerely for His sake,
Jonathan Miles
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