Heart procdures in PNG this week!

These are exciting days in PNG!  Please be praying for the 8 children/young adults and their parents who will be flying down from Mt Hagen, the closest commercial airport to Nazarene Hospital, to our capitol city of Pt Moresby where they will undergo heart caths this week!
There are not a lot of options for children in PNG to get help if they are born with or later develop a heart problem that requires intervention beyond medications.  A number of years ago we were privileged to have Dr. Kirk, a pediatric cardiologist from the US, come to our hospital.  Kirk along with a team that he has assembled will be in Pt Moresby this week at the only hospital that has a heart

One of our heart patients!  

He is going to feel so much better 

by the end of the week!  

cath lab.  Six of our patients will have procedures done to cure or improve their heart function and 2 will be further assessed by heart cath to determine whether they will be good candidates for open heart surgery next year.  
Please pray for Neola, Mark, Ashla, Roselyn, Caleb, Wom, Lydia, and Petrick along with Mr. Lash who will travel with the kids and their parents to Pt Moresby and Dr. Kirk, his team from the US and the staff at the hospital in Moresby who will be assisting in many ways in order to make things happen!!