Visitors and Chicken Pox

Happy New Year everyone!!!! I realize I am about 6 days late on that, but I wanted to send warm wishes for the beginning of your 2013 :) We have had a team here since before Christmas and they will be heading back to California tomorrow morning. 9 college students along with our friends, Bob and Deb Baker and their lovely daughters, Rachel and Rebbeca. Bob and Deb's family came with a different team of college students (Azusa Pacific University) in May 2011 so it was a repeat trip for them. Our time has gone by way too quickly, but we praise God for blessing us with 3 weeks with them. Bryan has been driving all over Maseru in an attempt to help the social work students get a feel of all Lesotho has to offer its citizens. There have been times of fun, laughter and jokes, and there has been times of anger, disappointment and even grief for these students. Please pray for them as they leave and adjust back to Californian life as well as for the Baker family, especially Rebecca as she has become even better friends with Faith and they are very sad to be seperated again.

I also have a prayer request for the children at Beautiful Gate. We are currently at 62 children, so we are a bit full but praising the Lord that He is providing for us and we are able to take in a few extra vulnerable children. My prayers are for a few of our children who have developed chicken pox. Unfortunately, chicken pox are highly contagious and we have a few children who have caught it and we are praying they are able to get over them without spreading it even further around campus. We are especially concerned for our children who are HIV positive and have weakened immune systems. May God put a special covering over them so they do not get sick from this!! Thank you for your prayers and may God bless all of you in 2013!