''Mercy'' on the Africa Mercy

There is a new baby that was born on our hospital ward 3 days ago and her name is Mercy. Or that is what the day workers decided to call her. She is absolutly beautiful with big eyes and a lot of black curly hair. Her mother went into early labor and she is a mom of a little 6 year old patient that is here for treatment about his burns.
God is good and gave favour to the delivery and mom and baby are well and it is quite exciting to have a little newborn onboard.
Miriam already wanted to see her and she was very happy to touch her little cheeks and smile at her.

This is Laura, one of our ward supervisors holding Mercy just a couple hours after delivery. Everything went well and we are so grateful for God's protection and guidance.

Thank you for your prayers and support for us. We appreciate all of you so very much.

The Grizzard family in Liberia

Beautiful Miriam !!!

We just want to ''share'' our beautiful daughter Miriam Sue with you. And we thank the LORD for such a wonderful and happy girl that sings, jumps, laughs, giggles and makes everybody around her happy. She has adjusted to Ships life so well and is enjoying preschool.

Her new word is : actually , and it sounds really funny when she says it !!

.... do you think we've been too long on the ship now ? I get the impression that there is something wrong with my family !!

dress ceremony

Yesterday was a wonderful day for my patient ''Mama Brown ''. She is the 2nd. from the left - back row. She could go home after being in the hospital for weeks and having had her 3rd. VVF surgery. She is almost dry and for her that is a miracle. We do VVF surgeries onboard the AFM and it is a surgery for woman that have developed a fistula due to being in labor for too long - normally 3-4 days. It is unfortunatly very common here in West Africa.

We are so grateful that we can help some of those ladies - they are so sweet and have gone through so much trouble, often still from the time of the civil war that Liberia had for 14 years. It ended in 2003.

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