While in the States

Jamie and I have been in the states for three and a half months now. I can't believe how the time has just flown by. I am very excited to let everyone know what we have been doing since we have been here. We have traveled to many states that includes Illinois, Michigan, Arkansas, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Florida. We have done many programs at many different churches all around. We have been overwhelmed by the response we have gotten. Everyone has been so open armed and treated us with an overwhelming kindness. God has blessed us with so many good people in our lives and I praise Him for that.

One of the most exciting journeys we took was our trip to Minnesota. There is a man by the name Garwin McNeilus that flew us out to Minnesota to talk about all the things that he wanted to do for the mission going on in Bere. Where it starts for him was when he took his adopted granddaughter and her friend to Bere to work as nurses at the malnutrition Center two miles from the hospital. He spent one day there but saw such a great need for help. He talked extensively to Olen about the needs at the hospital and he jumped on board. For those of you who do not know who he is, he is the founder of the "One Day Churches and Schools". That is just his mission. He is a very successful business man that has his hands in many different things. He wanted Jamie to come to his shop where he fabricates the "One Day" buildings to see if they could get their minds together to modify these buildings to become, a so called, "One Day Hospital". This was so exciting for us because as soon as we get back to Chad we knew that the first work Jamie had to do was to build a private ward and a new house for Danae's parents. They are in Bere now and are committed to at least 5 years. This is a great thing because not only does Danae get her parent there but her father, Rolin Bland is a doctor that does surgery. So now our hospital has Danae an OB doctor, Olen an ER doctor and Dr Bland as a surgeon. We now have the staff to expand and we are getting ready to double the size of our hospital with a new private ward, a maternity ward and new operating building. So back to Garwin, he is in the process of sending over 3 containers with all the buildings we need for our hospital but also quite a few volunteer student missionary houses. Exciting!!! Not only are we going to get these buildings but he is setting up for Maranatha to come and help put them all up. Also, he has a crew coming to Chad on our same flight from Uganda to help pour all of the foundations! God is so good!!! We got help.