Dear Family and Friends,
I can’t help but laugh and I realize how much my email list has grown since last year. Many people write and ask me to add them to my list. If you would like to be deleted from my update list, please let me know (no offense will be taken….honest!)
My spirits are soaring today as I return from my trip to Chicago to visit Crizantina. I was blessed to witness a phenomenal event….she walked using only a walker! My heart wanted to leap out of my chest and touch Jesus Himself in complete awe of what He has accomplished by using ordinary individuals.
While I was in Chicago, Crizantina was transferred out of the hospital where she has been for 4 months and into a rehabilitation hospital. Praise God….what progress!! She is, however, having great difficulty adjusting. She was very much bonded to the nurses at the other hospital and told me yesterday before I left that she would in fact be returning to the old hospital today (yes, her obstinance is still very much alive!!…praise God!) She will spend approximately six weeks in this hospital and then she will live with a foster family and attend day treatment. Everyone involved needs your prayers.
As for me, I can honestly state that I am doing well. God’s promise is true….He does restore our soul. I would like to say many thanks to those who have written and called to tell me you are praying.
I will be returning to Romania on May 10th. God has given me even BIGGER plans that I previously had. If it is His will, I may open a Christian restaurant to employ older orphans that are “aging out” of orphanages. Hopefully, this business will turn enough of a profit to fund a program for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed street children. If God wants it, it will happen. I am open to whatever and whenever. I have no idea of how long I will stay. I do plan to return in the fall to take Crizantina back to her family in Romania.
Many of you have asked me about needs. The most pressing need right now is how I can get a Romanian health care worker to Chicago to train as the physical therapist for Crizantina after she returns to Romania. The rehab hospital states that it is imperative that she continue with certain exercises as she grows. That means that I have to identify a Romanian health care worker that speaks English. I already have someone in mind. She is a Christian nurse that worked with Crizantina two years ago (immediately after Crizantina was burned.) Please, please pray about this. If she agrees, I will need to raise money to get her here and pay for her expenses.
Additionally, I need some major guidance in the arena of starting a business and getting proper supplies for a restaurant. This is a mammoth project but God is much bigger!!! Again, I ask that each of you pray that God guides my steps.
I was just notified that the “Abandoned Caring for the Abandoned” project I started in the hospital is being expanded to the 8th floor!!! Praise God that He is burdening the hearts of others for these babies!!
If you would like to make donations to my ministry in Romania, please make checks payable to Seacoast Christian Community and note in the memo field “Romania Missions-Michelle Kelly”. Checks should be sent to:
Attn: Jenny Surratt
Seacoast Christian Community
750 Long Point Rd.
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
I will be using money received to fund projects such as getting food to Crizantina’s village and to facilitate moving her family closer to Oradea so that I can insure that Crizantina receives an education and proper health care. I ask that you pray God guide my steps in this project.
Thank you to each of you that give of yourself wherever you are serving. We are all missionaries if we are serving with an open heart and focusing on the love relationship with Christ rather than the act of service.
Basking in the Son,
Michelle
Posted on April 22nd, 1999 by Michelle
Filed under: Michelle's Journal