Emergency Case from Gaza

Monday, May 15th: Tonight I was able to visit the hospital for a second time to meet a mother and her son Rajab arriving in an ambulance from Gaza for an emergency heart surgery.

For the full story including additional pictures and video Jonathan and I took that night, please follow the link: http://shevet.org/rajab/

While waiting for Rajab to be stabilized Jonathan and I went throughout the hospital visiting the patients sponsored by Shevet Achim and getting the latest updates on their health status. I was also able to spend some time visiting with a young woman from Uganda whose six week old son Harvey had been rushed to Tel Aviv for emergency heart surgery through another non-profit organization called Save a Childs’s Heart:
(http://www.saveachildsheart.org/265-2086-en/Sach.aspx ).

I had met Harvey and his mother on my previous hospital trip and gotten to converse with them a little. This time as I came into the hospital, Harvey had already undergone one out of his two heart surgeries and was in the ICU. His mother had been sitting alone in a chair in the waiting room all day and into the night to hear how his condition was and whether or not he had been stabilized. I was able to listen to her story, her frustrations, and her fears. We prayed together and then she began asking me about the work that Shevet Achim does. As I explained to her that we help Muslim children she became very puzzled and then asked: “But you are a Christian right? Why is it that you would help a Muslim? I don’t understand. What makes you do this?”
I was able to talk to her about the love of Christ and explain that we love Muslims because Christ loves Muslims! We talked a little more and I made it a point to check on Harvey in the ICU later. So far his condition is stable and his first heart surgery was successful – praise the Lord!