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In a recent Heartbeat Newsletter article, we highlighted the overwhelming goodness of our Father in providing for our children. He continues to shatter our assumption that we know what to expect from Him. We've recently been evaluating how to meet two needs: finishing the homes and two building projects at Shepherd's Field and replacing three of our aging, fuel-guzzling vehicles.
While we've been mulling over a few options, one of our partners, Zachry-Caddell, offered a surprising solution: they will match donations dollar for dollar to contributions given to these two needs.
For every dollar donated to the purchase of the new vans, Zachry-Caddell will match up to US$20,000. Donations totaling US$20,000 toward this need will be doubled to US$40,000. They will also match every dollar given to the support of finishing the infrastructure at Shepherd's Field Children's Village up to US$40,000. The same holds true here: your accumulative donations of US$40,000 will be matched by Zachry-Caddell, doubling the amount donated to US$80,000 dollars.
Every US$20 becomes US$40. Every US$100 donation is now US$200. Every US$500 donation becomes US$1,000. We are so blessed to have the good people from Zachry-Caddell make this matching funds challenge. I pray that God will move on your hearts to consider making a generous donation to one of these two huge needs thereby doubling your gifts in support of China's orphaned children.
Three years ago, a weak-hearted three-month-old Jerry arrived, and we rejoiced to see this strong, personable boy go home. Jerry’s parents, Andy and Rebecca Ackermann, volunteer for PHF as our US-based accountant and data entry clerk. They, along with his grandmother, two sisters, and brother, arrived at the end of January to take Jerry home to the U.S.
Just days after he arrived, seven-month-old Isaac was taken to the hospital to repair his VSD, or hole in his heart. The surgery seems to have corrected his problem, but he is still in the hospital recovering. As one of our new arrivals, Isaac is in need of six sponsors for his care.
A recent medical consult for Hope, our sixteen-month-old in need of a liver transplant, brought us such joy. Because of her failing healthy and recommendations from a few doctors, we have thought for the last three or four months that Hope was in immediate need of her transplant. The process was complicated by recently passed transplant laws in China, and we’ve been working at a way to provide care for her. Though her health was failing in October and November, she seems to have stabilized since then, and the newest consult suggests that she will not need a transplant for two to five years. We continue to pray that she will be adopted soon, so that she can receive this care surrounded by her new family. 
Abandoned at our gate just days after her birth, Grace entered our care with a number of health complications. She received surgery immediately upon arriving in July 2006. Though the July surgery aided in correcting her imperforate anus and removing a mass on her back, we hope her recent shunt surgery will relieve the complications associated with her hydrocephalous. The gentle touch of her ayis continues to bring healing to her frail body, but we ask for your continued prayers. Grace is still in need of a few sponsors for her care.
Abby has returned home and is recovering from her January heart surgery. Though doctors initially thought she would need two surgeries within ten days of each other, they decided that the first surgery was enough. Her color is more normal, and the peace of her home, Samaritan’s House, seems to be embracing and further healing her.
In addition to seven-month-old Isaac, who will be living at Samaritan’s House at Shepherd’s Field upon his return from the hospital, six-year-old Gregg moved into House of Love in January. Gregg’s left leg is amputated below the knee, and we are hoping to get him fitted with a prosthetic leg. He has cheerfully settled into his life here. Both boys are in need of six sponsors for their care; we hope you will consider joining us in caring for them. 
