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January Update from Kelberts
January 6, 2009
Good evening everyone and Happy New Year,
It has been a while since we last updated everyone. We have been working out at Marie Ens orphanage, and she has asked Dan and I to come out as often as we can to help. You can look up her orphanage on line by entering her name or Place of Rescue Cambodia. We are learning a lot from this wonderful Godly woman. We have also been asked to oversee a day care center for the next five weeks for Pastor John and his wife Anne with Elim Church while they go back to Ireland to get more support for their ministry. Also we received a call last Thursday from Cathleen Jones from Children in Families. She asked if we would be foster parents to a very difficult one month old baby boy (Sam). This is a very new concept for Cambodians to provide foster families until adoption is available. Usually children are put right into an orphanage. After contacting our references, Cathleen had us sign some papers, and we then received this beautiful little baby. God does such good work. Our new little guy is just as cute as can be. He has very bad colic and is withdrawing from something. Now that he is on medicine he is a bit better. We are feeding him every 3-4 hours about 3- 4 ounces of formula. Lactose free. We bought the wrong formula the first time we went to the market because we can't read Khmer yet. Smile. Sam didn't get any of the wrong formula. Cathleen reads and speaks Khmer very well, and when she came over, we asked her and she told us what to get. She and her husband have been here for 16 years. Both grew up in Minnesota on dairy farms. Dale (her husband) is a church planter and went to bible college a couple of miles from John Piper’s church. Small world.
We received Sam on Friday, and on Saturday morning I (Debbie) woke up with a middle ear infection and couldn't get out of bed. The devil wanted me down, but thanks to Jeff and Michelle, Jeff found a doctor who gave us medicine for Sam's colic. On Monday, Dan went back to the doctor, and the doctor gave Dan medicine for me. I feel much better. The doctor Dan saw owns the clinic and graduated from University of Michigan Medical School in 1968 and has been in Phnom Penh for the past 6 years. He also does emergency medical evacuation and some surgeries. Satan lost again. Yea!!!
January 16th we will be attending a luncheon with MTI Cambodia. We are looking into doing some basic medical training with them in the Providences. We don't want to miss any opportunities to learn how to care spiritually and physically for children.
We pray God's blessings for each of you and your families this new year. ?
In His care,
Dan and Debbie
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