Dear friends,

In our last e-mail update on March 30, I shared with you the story of a newborn baby girl named Samer. The day after Israeli forces rocketed targets in Gaza, she was rushed out of the city for emergency lifesaving heart surgery in Israel. I asked you to pray with us for the complex operation which would switch the great arteries leading from her heart back to their proper places.

Samer's recovery from surgery was slow and difficult, and she remained on mechanical ventilation for two weeks in the pediatric ICU. She was hookedup to a frightening array of tubes and monitors, which kept her mother from
holding her. Unable to bond with Samer, and doubtful of any good outcome, Samer's mother became depressed and asked several times if she could leave the hospital and go home.

But praise God! Our volunteers John and Dawn Lawrence were able to counsel the mother, and within a few days Samer was off the ventilator and into her mother's arms.

Tonight Samer is doing well and back home with her family in the Jabalia refugee camp. For one moment, for one life, the widening gap between Arabs and Jews in this land was bridged.

With thanks for God's mercy,

Jonathan Miles
Coordinator
Light to the Nations
POB 7012
Holon 58170
Israel