Morley Update 2013 #10

Everyone -

Still having a few health issues so stayed pretty close to home this week. I did go out Monday night to the McCracken home for a celebration of the arrival of Dr. Josephs family. It was so wonderful to meet his wife Shahida and his children Zari and Shahavais. Here is a quote from Scott's letter: "Words cannot express the love and appreciation I feel in my heart for the way you have all welcomed me and cared for me and prayed for me and my family. I think I will not be missing my family in Pakistan because now I have this family here in Greece with new brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers," said Shahida at the welcome party in our home last night, where 37 people from 11 nations gathered to welcome them and to corporately express thanksgiving to God for their safe and long-awaited arrival.

The children were very shy and overwhelmed at first but by the end of the evening our Greek brother Michalis had them very engaged in an energetic and joyful balloon fight!

I wish you all could have been here for the party as it was a small taste of heaven with all the love, rejoicing, and gratitude to God that was in the room (not to mention feasting on good food)! They have asked us to please communicate again to all who prayed and/or gave to help them make it this far in their difficult journey. And please don't stop praying for them.

Last week we had another Doctor's Day. I was still in the hospital but Kent was able to go for part of the day before leaving to come and get me and take me home. Here is a quote from Suzie Gonzales, a fellow missionary who volunteers with us: "I helped out at a ministry day clinic today with the staff of Helping Hands. The event was hosted by a Greek ministry at their facility. Their staff was amazing!! I was able to teach refugees basic dental hygiene, a pediatrician taught about nutrition, another doctor did physicals, some gave lessons on easy & healthy ways to cook & then we all ate a delicious meal together prepared byDonna & some of the wonderful staff . All in all it was a very blessed day!" On this particular Doctor's Day we may have had a hand in saving a baby's life! One of the women brought in her baby for a check up. The doctor told her "You need to get this child to the hospital today - there is something wrong with her heart." The baby had been seen by another doctor but they had missed it. After hospitalization they found the baby had an extra aorta coming from the heart and the doctor's said if this had not been found she would have died within a couple of months. Praise the Lord for the doctor's who volunteered their time to have this day.

Continue to pray for us as we prepare to leave for the states in a little over a month. The team had a meeting yesterday and we have completely rearranged the schedule to accommodate for a smaller staff with our being gone and the Aslami's relocating. Kent said they came up with a good plan and everyone seems excited about some new possibilities for ministry with this schedule. Kent has been especially overwhelmed with leadership things this month and then has had to deal with my health issues on top of it. Pray for strength for him and for us to be able to focus not just on what we need to do here but the things we need to do in preparation for our home assignment. There are details to take care our for our house, residence papers etc. Then there are things we need to pull together to hand off responsibilities to other team members - Christy Taylor will be team leader while we are gone and Kenn Dirrim will be handling a very full schedule of Short Term Teams and Interns coming this year. We also need to prepare for presentations we will be giving in the states as well as making some appointments for me to see various doctors. I still have a couple of appointments here where we need to make some decisions about my medications. Please pray for wisdom for the doctors.

I have one more thing to ask and I always feel a little awkward but you are our extended team so here goes. We have already had to plan to raise a little extra support this year due to the higher cost of insurance and our deductible. Our insurance changed again and even after our 2000 dollar deductible is met we are responsible for 20% of our medical bills up to another 2000 dollars. Because of my recent hospitalization and all the tests they had to do we are already at that cap. This comes at a time when we were facing extra expenses of traveling and being away for 6 months. SO if you have been thinking of supporting us we would be grateful. As I said we need to raise a bit more monthly support but a one time gift to help with our recent medical bills would also be greatly appreciated. You can give by following the directions underneath our signature at the bottom of this letter. God has been very faithful to provide through many of you for us in the years we have been here and we have no doubt that He will continue to provide - thank you for all you have already done for us.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you this year and being able to share more fully with you and with others about the work here. If your church or small group would like to have us speak we would love to get you on our schedule. We will be in CA the month of May and the OR/WA area from June through early Sept. We also look forward to some much needed "down time" and time with our families. We love you all - thank you for standing with us.

Serving Him Together,
Kent and Myrna Morley
Tripoleos 76
Elliniko 16777
Athens Greece
011 30 210 96 38 625
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