Another Miraculous Story

Posted by Rita Rippee
Child Sponsorship Coordinator


Tristan came to us with a heart condition that is quite serious -- PDA and Pulmonary Atresia. At that time, we were told that he would require two surgeries to treat his condition. His first heart surgery was performed on December 5, 2008. Recently he was taken back to the hospital for tests to do his next surgery. The doctors were amazed and excitedly reported to us that Tristan may not require more surgery! They told us to bring him back in another 3 months and they would run more tests to verify that fact.



Yet another encouraging story was when our staff was approached by the surgeon at the hospital the same day Tristan was there. He told us that he’d noticed something of significance regarding our children at New Day. He began to tell us how he had found that our children consistently did better than others and wanted to know why. These orphans not only come through the surgeries better, but quite often recover more quickly and are released faster than those who come from regular families. In the natural, one would think that the opposite would be true. This is coming from a surgeon, who recognized the fact that he was not doing anything different with our children, yet the outcome was amazingly greater and he wanted to know why. Our staff then had the opportunity to tell him the reason, “It is because people pray for these kids!” What an awesome testimony! It is something our New Day staff has already known to be true, but to have him not only notice the difference, but also to be curious enough to seek out the reason, well……it speaks volumes to us! We cannot take the credit ourselves, but give all the glory to the One it truly belongs!!