Ramona and Earl(and family) need your prayers

Hello everyone;
Urgent!!!!! S.O.S. Prayer needed. As many of you know, my niece Ramona has battled sarcoma cancer for over 3 yrs. She was diagnosed 6 months after her and Earl got married. She’s just finished round 23, yes, 23 of chemo, and things are not looking very good. Please check out their blog site at :
The Life and Times of Earl and Ramona Reimer. We need serious, believing, intercessory prayer.
After the above paragraph I really don’t feel like saying anything else, but I also realize I haven’t written anything in a while.
You may have heard in the news about Air Kenya’s strike; they were demanding 130% increase in wages!!
Pastor Ray had never before heard of a strike in Africa. The strike really affected 2 ladies that were here from B.C., friends of the Bales’.
The first week we were here I was terribly homesick for our house 3 evenings.. I’m kinda embarrassed to say that it was something material and not a person, someone I have a relationship with. However, the contrast between our two homes is great, and thankfully the Lord is helping me a great deal in being more and more content. Speaking of being homesick, the first 3 or 4 days or so I kept looking at vehicles’ license plates, subconscienciously wondering when I’d see a Manitoba plate. Around day 4 my brain kicked in and I realized the almost absolute impossibility of this happening, as the vehicle would have to be transported across the big pond for this to happen. Be nice and say that I can blame this on jet lag.
I previously wrote that we have a passion fruit and 2 mango trees on our yard. I’m sorry to report that is not accurate; our botanically untrained eyes did not recognize the half of it!!! BUT, we DO have: a pineapple tree, 2 orange trees, a papaya tree, 2 mango trees, a lemon tree, an avocado tree, and last but not least, a guava tree. The people in Mexico will remember my fondness for guava. Isn’t the Lord so awesome, blessing us with all this stuff!!?? I must add that the pineapple and orange trees are not yet big enough to bear fruit.
My (Rosel) mom has a serious green thumb, and mom, I think you’d be proud of me the way I’ve been working in our yard together with our guard. There’s a lot of shade in our yard in the afternoon which allows me to do this. I’m really enjoying this a great deal, praying as I work and just claiming our yard and everything in it for Jesus. Juneval, our guard laughs when I let out little yells as yet another gecko has crossed my almost immediate path. There are also big lizards, with bright, sky blue heads that frequent our front and back fence.
Fabiola took me to the market one day last week, and it was something that I wanted Isaac and Colton to experience ASAP, so that Saturday the three of us ventured out into this ….. Um… busy city. The fun begins when you’re trying to tell the taxi driver where you want to go. Not all words have hand motions you know!! The market is something that I could not have imagined; it’s huge, Fabiola said it covers over a city block. It’s open air, with a tin roof covering the whole thing. There’s hundreds and hundreds of tiny kiosks, measuring between 4 and 6 feet squared. Laundry detergent and food items are side by side on a tiny shelf; men are ‘siesta-ing’ on sacks of rice and beans; aisles are 2 feet wide if your lucky, sometimes only wide enough to plant your foot on the floor, mostly crammed with very hot, sticky and not fresh bodies. There’s mothers with their children on their backs, children and crippled (and others) begging, there’s loud shouting, requesting room to pass through from men bearing heavy loads on their backs making their way through the maze; there’s enthusiastic bartering, blaring music, beckoning shopkeepers, hearing “muzungu,muzungu” from every side. There are sights you don’t want to see again, there are mountains of the delicious fruits that make up our daily salad, and at the end, we got to say: “hey look, there’s a muzungu.” It’s really quite fascinating.
There’s a group of 6 people here from the UK doing holiday club, aka VBS., with the CRIB kids. Colton is participating in this and having a good time. They are short-staffed and suffering from stomach bugs, so I’m helping them all week. They are a great bunch, and very organized.
Next week I officially start my job(so why am I so busy now already?). All the teachers/assistants have one week to get everything ready; school starts Sept. 8th. Isaac is still spending most of his time at the Primary School, there’s so much that needs doing.
There’s a young Vancouver university student here for 5 weeks whose family is friends with the Bales’. He’s staying at New Hope orphanage, but during the day has helped Isaac for the last 2-ish weeks. We’ve had the blessing of getting to know him, as he comes for lunch most days. He’s a great guy who really loves the Lord. If the Holy Spirit puts Thomas on your mind, pray for him. God’s invested a lot into this guy, and Thomas’s desire is to serve the Lord where ever He leads.
Time to quit. Rosel