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We are using this blog to keep our friends, family, and church body up to date on the progress of Baby Will. Visit this site often for updates and to find specific ways to pray and support Matt, Kari, and Jeff. Create your own username and password (free) and use the comments (at the end of each post) to write your prayers and words of encouragement.
Matt, Kari, and Jeff
About Our Situation
Matt and Kari are due to have a baby boy in October. They have a son in high school named Jeff and lots of family who are all very excited to welcome this little blessing into this world. Matt and Kari received a report from their physician that the baby has been diagnosed with Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease or ARPKD. This is the same disease that took the life of their five-month-old daughter Natalie almost nine years ago. With the disease, the baby's kidneys are forming fluid filled cysts that are taking up room in the kidneys and damaging the tissue in the kidneys, causing them not to function properly. Additionally, when the kidneys do not function properly, it causes a loss in amniotic fluid, which isn't good for the baby and causes Kari discomfort as well. The diagnosis is serious and needless to say, we are very concerned. Kari and Matt have been going to St. Louis for care to take place throughout the remainder of Kari's pregnancy.
Ok, on to bigger and better. A diagnosis is just that....a diagnosis. We know that God is bigger and that He can do all things....things that defy everything we know to be medically true.....even a diagnosis like this. This said, we are praying and BELIEVING in a miracle. We know in our hearts that the Lord seeks to draw us closer to Him and that His plans for our lives are to prosper us, so we know we can trust in His will for our lives. Please join us in praying and believing in the miracle we know we will see. We are committing ourselves to prayer and fasting for this cause and invite you to do the same. We know your prayers will be heard along with ours and that we can expect to see great things happen. We are praying life to the kidneys and death to the disease, and for peace for Matt, Kari, and Jeff. Matt and Kari and the family will update this site often with news on the baby's progress, updates on their progress as they deal in the situation, and specific ways that we can pray and support this family.
Ok, on to bigger and better. A diagnosis is just that....a diagnosis. We know that God is bigger and that He can do all things....things that defy everything we know to be medically true.....even a diagnosis like this. This said, we are praying and BELIEVING in a miracle. We know in our hearts that the Lord seeks to draw us closer to Him and that His plans for our lives are to prosper us, so we know we can trust in His will for our lives. Please join us in praying and believing in the miracle we know we will see. We are committing ourselves to prayer and fasting for this cause and invite you to do the same. We know your prayers will be heard along with ours and that we can expect to see great things happen. We are praying life to the kidneys and death to the disease, and for peace for Matt, Kari, and Jeff. Matt and Kari and the family will update this site often with news on the baby's progress, updates on their progress as they deal in the situation, and specific ways that we can pray and support this family.
Specific Ways to Pray...
- For a miracle!
- For the kidneys to be healed, to stop forming cysts and for the existing cysts to disappear
- For Will's kidneys to function
- For Will's lungs to develop and for his body to grow
- For more amniotic fluid to surround Will
- For peace and support for Matt, Kari, and Jeff
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3 comments:
Matt, Kari and Jeff,
My family and I continue daily in prayer for you and baby Will. When our daughter, Emily was seriously ill she was blessed with dreams that brought forth the reassurance of the Father's love and care for her. In one particular dream she observed herself approaching Jesus. He lovingly reached out to her, then he began to tenderly stroke her hair as a father would his young daughter and told her "that everything was going to be okay". Even though the next several months were very difficult for her physically she had been blessed with hope and courage to believe. My prayer for you is that as you present your requests to God for Will that His gift of peace will be upon you in a mighty way. With that may you also experience the reassurance of the Father's loving care and provision. My family and I are standing on the word with you that "It is well". 2Kings 4:26
A note of encouragement...
I am so excited to witness the awesome young man of God Jeff has become!
Sunday morning God impressed upon me that He is growing Jeff into a man of great faith. Jesus desires to bring him into a deep, abiding, face-to-face faith relationship with Him as he walks day to day with Jesus through this roller coaster we call life. Life is a exacting teacher with all it's ups and downs... creating intimacy with the Heavenly Father as we "hold on" to His hand.
"We can be sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good." Romans 8:28 (the Message)
Awaiting the good with you, Rachele
Matt, Kari and Jeff-
James 1:3 came to me today: "For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow." Over the last 8-9 years your endurance has grown providing a strength to get through this temporary situation until the miracle takes place in this pregnacy and the healthy birth of Baby Will. Your family is stronger now more than ever and you must hold on to this endurance the Lord has provided. God Bless-
Love,
Jen V.
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