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Greetings from Manila! The Lord has blessed us with success here thus far. I apologize for my silence for the last couple of weeks but I have been very occupied with making sure Cedric is well taken care of in addition to his daily physical therapy needs and my other responsibilities. Due to the factContinue reading “Update: Feb 22”

Things are going well here in Manila, thanks be to God. Cedric begins his physical therapy tomorrow and he will also meet with the orthosis doctor so she can begin making the braces for his legs.We have spent the first two weeks here jumping through bureaucratic hoops to get Cedric’s insurance reinstated and to applyContinue reading “Update (Feb 3)”

In the last week or so major steps forward have been made.   This is an important update- if you are interested in the mission please read this post even though its long.   First of all, I have scheduled an appointment for Cedric with specialists in Manila.  We will be travelling there this Sunday. GettingContinue reading “BIG PROGRESS IN THE FRIENDS OF CEDRIC MISSION!”

I would like to offer my sincere thanks to everyone who has helped and encouraged me to begin this campaign for Cedric’s surgery. I had known Cedric for quite some time before I prayerfully resolved to undertake this venture. I wanted to help him from the very beginning but, to be honest, I did notContinue reading “A Thank You”

On behalf of Cedric’s family Junior thanks everyone who has been helping them with donations and prayers! Today I delivered this week’s necessities to Cedric’s family. I had a long talk with his parents and collected all the information they had about Cedric’s medical condition and arranged for them to contact the doctors who lastContinue reading “Progress!”

Today as I was getting ready to go to the Church for my morning prayers the grace of the Lord led me to feel that there was something out of the ordinary He wished me to do today.  His spirit led me to walk past the Church and into a park by the ocean whichContinue reading “Only One God”

Thanks to the generous support I have received I was able to provide Cedric and his family with a very good Christmas.  A couple of people donated specifically for that purpose so I decided not to hold back.  This will probably be the only big Christmas these children ever have.  They only had two orContinue reading “Christmas With the Family”

With the generosity of a few individuals I have been helping this family for a couple of months.  They were my neighbors until they were evicted.  Cedric, the boy holding the catheter bag, suffers from a congenital spinal condition.  In the states it probably would have been corrected at birth but here a totally correctiveContinue reading “A New Mission”