Dear friends,
Please would you pray with us tonight for a newborn Palestinian baby boy
named Khaled from the Gaza Strip. He's just come out of a complex, eight-hour
heart surgery at the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Israel, and
is now in critical condition. His tiny chest cavity has been left open
to allow quick access to the heart in case of complications.
Khaled's story began a week ago, when we sent him to the Wolfson Medical
Center for emergency catheterization. The Israeli doctors there worked
until 4:30 in the morning in an unsuccessful effort to open a hole between
two chambers in his heart. That left surgery as the only means to save
Khaled, and as Wolfson's own surgeon is out of the country, we transferred
him urgently him to the other large center.
Surgery is more costly there; we are asked to contribute $4500 toward
Khaled's expenses. A few doctors in both Gaza and Israel questioned whether
we should treat Khaled in this case. They pointed out that even with successful
surgery, he might only live into his twenties or thirties.
Yet even so his life is precious, in the image of God. And are not our
own lives stories of God's redeeming power invading our weakness and seemingly
hopeless situations? Let's pray for life for Khaled!
Yours sincerely for Jesus' sake,
Jonathan Miles
Coordinator
Light to the Nations
POB 32296
Jerusalem 91000
