- Age12
- Conditionan amputation
- Next Appointment 09/13/2018
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CURE in Kenya
The picture above is of CURE in Kenya. Everyone who serves with CURE in Kenya, from medical professionals to office staff, are dedicated to providing the highest quality medical and spiritual care to people who, without CURE, couldn't find it and couldn't afford it, just like Mercy. To do that, we're inviting you to partner with us.
We need to raise approximately $1000 to treat children like Mercy. When you give a gift through Mercy's CUREkids profile, your contribution will help us continue our work in countries like Kenya. Have more questions? Ask us.
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When you partner with us monthly, we'll send you an email each month to introduce you to a different child who was helped because of your generosity. You can choose to follow their updates and send them get well messages. That means that each year, you're a part of helping 12 different children, beginning with Mercy. We call it being a CURE Hero!
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Mercy's Story
When Mercy’s mom was asked if we could share Mercy’s story, she replied, “It should be shared! She is a testament to God’s working!” So friends, we are pleased to share this fantastic girl and her God story.
Mercy’s story starts… Read more
When Mercy’s mom was asked if we could share Mercy’s story, she replied, “It should be shared! She is a testament to God’s working!” So friends, we are pleased to share this fantastic girl and her God story.
Mercy’s story starts out when she was born. She was born two months premature, and this didn’t help matters. But she fought and pulled through. When she started crawling, she was an innovative crawler. She crawled more on her knees than most kiddos do. As it turned out, she had tight tendons behind her knees. Her mama took her to the hospital and therapy provided at least a temporary solution to this problem.
Fast forward a few years. Mercy is now in school. And this girl… let us tell you about her. Basically, we just love her. She has a smile that lights up the day and the night, a silly sense of humor, and she giggles! Mercy loves people and she loves life. Since we’ve known her, she hasn’t really been very mobile, however, we can imagine what she’s like when she IS mobile. If she’s as passionate about playing as she is about life than we can only imagine how she came into her current injury.
Mercy was playing at school one day when she fell and broke her femur. She went to the hospital and was casted. Thankfully, she also knew a teacher who knew about CURE. So, she came to one of our mobile clinics around her home and then to CURE. Mercy ended up having a biopsy on her leg due to a tumor, and we got to enjoy her for a little while she waited for the results. She ended up being discharged without the biopsy results, came back to mobile clinic, still didn’t get the results, and finally came to CURE for the results. The news that they final received was both good and bad: the tumor, praise God, is benign! However, it has also unfortunately ate away a lot of the bone around it. So, for various reasons, an amputation is the best thing for Mercy.
Mercy loves our Jesus. In fact, guess what she wants to be when she grows up? A pastor! She loves Jesus so much that she pities those who DON’T love him! She loves CRE (Christian Readers’ Association) in school too. We’re thankful for this little girl and her heart for Jesus! Please be praying for her as she goes in for surgery. Amputations aren’t an easy thing. Pray that Mercy would trust Jesus and find more reasons to be a testament to his working.
Latest Updates
We almost missed her, but… WE DIDN’T!!! Our lovely friend came to clinic as it was close to finishing. She brought her aunties with her, and she’s grown since we last spent time with her! She told us about school, she’s in the third grade now. When we tried to ask what she’s learning, she told us, “Just good.” We’re not sure if she didn’t understand or if school is really just good. We’re happy and thankful we could see our girl! She’s doing well and wearing her prosthetic. It was a bit tight and needed adjusting, hopefully it fits her better now. We’ll see her again on April 26th!
We were so happy to see Mercy this week. Her mum was pretty excited about us being able to see them again. We might have even allowed some other patients to skip Mercy in line to see the doctor as we spoke about all the time we hadn’t seen each other. She came for review and collection of her prosthesis. It was difficult for her, maybe because it brought back memories from a past she’d want to forget. She struggled to hold back her tears as the physiotherapist tried to familiarize her with the prosthesis. Her mum was shown the kind of exercises she needed to help Mercy do to help her use the prosthesis. Just before they left for home, Mercy asked to speak to Naphtali, one of the storytellers, on the phone. When we called Naphtali, Mercy’s face brightened almost immediately, she asked Naphtali to come and take her home for a while. Mercy’s mum asked if they would spend Christmas together. Dear friends, would you please remember Mercy in prayer that she will soon be able to use her prosthesis and move around like she used to a few years back?
Friends, we haven’t seen Mercy in awhile, but we’re excited to see her at clinic in about three weeks! We’d like to share a story with you while we wait to see her. It comes from our spiritual department, and it just goes to show how sparkly for Jesus Mercy is. Mercy, age eleven, knows God as her Father who prays for and protects her. To appreciate God for giving her life, she always repents of her sins and sings to Him. Mercy loves singing because it gives her peace and eases her burdens. She was prayed for and given a Bible. She prays for God to help her to walk one day so that people may know that her heavenly Father lives. Please pray for Mercy as she continues her healing process and also thank God with us for her sparkly Jesus-joy!
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