Please pray for Cristy & Erik as they take Benjamin to Sao Paulo. Aren’t the Armours somewhere around there? maybe they know of a place Cris could stay. Please pray for them and maybe even email her to let her know you are. Prayers and the simplest notes keep us mindful that God is working even (and especially) during times of sadness and uncertainty.
Copied from Cristy:
Dear praying friends,
We thank you so much for your prayers and concern for Benjamin. Thankyou for your e-mails of encouragement!
We continue to need prayers. The latest blood work (alpha fetoprotein) was way higher than the normal. The last ultrasound showed 5 small nodules on his liver. So, the doctors here in Cuiabá have recommended that we go to São Paulo (southern Brasil, 1300 miles from here) to get a biopsy on his liver. (That will involve a general anesthesia and then getting a piece of the nodule with a needle—that is my non medical way of explaining it! 
Our plan is to get tickets tomorrow morning and leave Monday by plane. We have an appointment with the doctor on Tuesday morning.
It looks like we will be at a Jewish hospital and from what the doctor said here we will not have to pay anything there. That sounds almost too good to be true! There is even a house that we can stay in near the hospital (but we just found out that they don’t have room for us to stay until the end of next week). We are praying that we can find a place to stay that is close to the hospital. São Paulo traffic is TERRIBLE so we want to avoid that and be as close as we can.
My parents are postponing their return to the US until we know a little better what is going on with Benjamin. Hopefully my mom can come down with us to São Paulo.
We know that we are in a spiritual battle—the enemy wants to postpone our trip to the access town to work with the Star people. Next week Erik was going to go along with the Bible school to visit some villages for evangelism. Interestingly enough, it “happened” to be the group that speaks a language that’s related to the Star language. So the plan was to also find out more about language compatility! Now that won’t be possible—not at this time!
Please pray with us that this attempt of the evil one will not discourage us from going where the Lord has called us!
“You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world!” 1 John 4:4
Thankyou so very much!!
-Erik & Cristy and little Benjamin
