Dear All,
We have received several important items of news from Riziki for which we ask for your prayers and thoughts. We are therefore sending this short newsletter to let you know immediately.
1. Julius has been to hospital in Nakuru several times in the last few days and has been diagnosed with fluid around his heart. This is serious! The doctors are conducting further tests to see what treatment should be given. We pray that Julius will get the treatment he needs and that he will soon be well again.
2. Francis Chuman was rushed into hospital with malaria - not something normally seen at Riziki. Liz was very concerned that he might not survive. The hospital did not have the appropriate medicine required to treat him on the day he was admitted but, thankfully, it was acquired for the next day. After being really ill he has recovered and he is now home and is back to school. We give thanks for his recovery and pray that he will continue to be well and that malaria will not recur.
3. This week, Liz received an urgent appeal from the children’s department to take in two sisters immediately. They had been neglected and abandoned by their mother who has been arrested. Their names are Susan and Grace, aged ten and four respectively. We have always found the Riziki family eager to welcome new children and help them to settle in. Grace has already started a friendship with our youngest boy Max.
4. Liz needs our prayers to help her cope with the extra pressures she is under and the increased demands on her time.
5. We give thanks that there has been rain at Riziki – not the heavy rains that have been expected for a couple of months, but enough to turn the ground from brown to green. Planting has been done so we pray that rain will continue and lead to good harvests of maize and beans and the other vegetables we grow.
6. A message just in from our sky-diving Philippa - I’m really sorry to have to report that yet again I have to reschedule the skydive. This time it is Covid 😩😩😩. Albert and myself have got it at the moment, not too bad but definitely not well enough to skydive and I certainly don’t want to infect other people. - We wait patiently!
Many blessings,
Ian & Diana.