Dear friends,

Three months ago I wrote you about a late-night visit to a baby boy born in Gaza with transposed great arteries of the heart, blue and struggling to breathe on 100% oxygen in an incubator, so newborn that he was not yet named.

The next morning that baby--by then given the name Mohammed--was rushed to Israel, where a hole was opened between the chambers of his heart by catheter to allow oxygenated blood to reach his body. This immediately
stabilized him, but doctors had doubts about his neurological condition after finding that his skull had somehow been fractured. Mohammed returned home to wait.

Last week I went to his home and found him in a little rocker crib in a bare room, connected to a tall oxygen cannister. Neurologically he looked great, smiling and following family members around the room with his eyes. But at the least stimulus he began to cry and turn blue. The relief provided by the hole in his heart was no longer adequate, and a phone call to the Israeli hospital revealed that Mohammed was again at immediate risk of his life. We rushed him back in, and Wednesday he underwent major surgery to switch his arteries. Tonight he is in the pediatric ICU, still on the ventilator, doctors struggling to keep him stable. Please pray with us that God will complete the work of redemption he has begun in Mohammed's life.

There are also children that medicine cannot help. A half hour ago a man left our home sobbing and staggering down the road, after hearing that doctors have little hope to cure the metastatic bone cancer of his ten-year-old son Jihad. Please pray too for a work of redemption in this young life.

Your servant for Jesus' sake,

Jonathan Miles
Coordinator
Light to the Nations
POB 46
Ashkelon 78100
Israel
Tel. 972-50-4042535
Fax 972-7-2131095
e-mail: lttn@netvision.net.il