Dear friends,
The phone rang this morning and a gravelly-voiced man told me that his
firstborn baby son had a heart defect and was in critical condition in
a hospital in Gaza. The new father had gone from office to office for
twoweeks in a vain search for help. "I don't know what to do,"
he said,
beginning to weep into the phone.
From his voice I knew this was an older man, yet only now had his first son been born. I asked how long he'd been married. "Five years," he said. "For 24 years I've been in the military [PLO] in Lebanon and in Algeria. I was also in prison in Israel. Five years ago I came back to Gaza and married a local girl."
Next I spoke with Rambam, a large Israeli government medical center on thebay in Haifa. Their pediatric cardiologist immediately agreed to treat the baby, and asked that we bring him without delay. The hospital management then agreed, also without hesitation, to charge only about one-fifth of the normal cost, as they've done for us in the past with other Palestinian children.
I called the father back and told him that doctors in Haifa wanted to help save his baby. "That's where I was in prison," he said. Tomorrow morning the baby will be on his way there, as old adversaries unite in the effort to save a precious life.
Please pray for the baby; his name is Hussein. And as the Lord leads, we do need help to cover the one-fifth share of the medical expenses, which amounts to $2500.
Yours sincerely for Jesus' sake,
Jonathan Miles
Coordinator
Light to the Nations
POB 7012
Holon 58170
Israel
Tel. 972-(0)52-971771
E-mail: LTTN@netvision.net.il
Non-profit organization no. 58 025 750 9.
