{"id":2275,"date":"2014-06-06T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2014-06-06T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T19:37:46","slug":"after-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/after-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"After a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Jon Post<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In April, last year, I got a phone call from the doctor who leads up the Social Services department of the hospital. We had spent years submitting papers, meeting with hospital doctors\/leaders\/administrators. We wanted to do it right, we wanted to wait for timing and favor to come together so that we could know, know<\/em>, that it was ready. Last year in April my phone rang. It was a short conversation, by I hung up with a shaking hand. The director of the largest hospital in the country had approved us to partner with the Oncology ward at his hospital and house some of his patients. We called this fledgling project, Casa Ahav\u00e1.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a little over a year since our first patient came to stay with us. We\u2019ve had 7 more since. Each has stayed at least 3 months, some up to 6. Each has become an intimate part of our family for the short time they are here.<\/p>\n

Zacarias<\/p>\n

Eliza<\/p>\n

Tom\u00e1s<\/p>\n

Filomena<\/p>\n

Anita<\/p>\n

In\u00eas<\/p>\n

Pedro<\/p>\n

Rosa<\/p>\n

And more to come.<\/p>\n

I was looking back over our blog and wanted to share something with you… mostly just a bunch of names. I\u2019ve listed these names once or twice before but I wanted to give some scope to what we feel God gave us to do. We arrived here and felt God stir our hearts to minister in this way back in 2009. It\u2019s been almost 5 years since that time and we\u2019ve chronicled a lot of stories we\u2019ve been privileged to know. Most of them are filled with pain. Most, but not all, ended in death.<\/p>\n

I know I\u2019ve asked you to pray with us before and I\u2019m asking again. My faith has been growing in regards to prayer recently and I know I don\u2019t do it enough. So I need help. Would you pray with me? Would you pray that we continue to be given the strength to serve?<\/p>\n

Below is a list of names of people we\u2019ve met and told a personal story about here on this blog. Don\u2019t go reading all of them. But if you recognize one or two, would you open that story and read it again and pray. Pray that God gives what is needed to invite any future stories like it\u00a0to share in the story of Casa Ahav\u00e1.<\/p>\n

Pray with us please.<\/p>\n

Emilia\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Joaquim\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Manuel\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Tom\u00e9 here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a><\/p>\n

Carlotta\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Sob\u00fa\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Rosina\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Marcelino\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Joanna\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

L\u00facia here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a><\/p>\n

Rudu\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Esperan\u00e7a\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Jonathan\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Nelson\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Maninha\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Da Luz\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Marta\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Fernando\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Cleo\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Sil\u00e9n\u00e7ia\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Christino\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Nelsa\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Monica\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Ant\u00f3nio\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Alice\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Nelson\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Mois\u00e9s\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Edson\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Pedro\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Manuel\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Samuel\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Pedro\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Xavier\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Ros\u00e1rio\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Dosma\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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