My friend Amara...

As many of you will remember, Amara is a young lad I met who had broken his back while playing with friends, which has now resulted in a spinal cord injury.

Well, I've been visiting weekly since I met him about 6 weeks ago now, and in preparation for him being able to get up from bed rest, I had spent time assessing how he would be able to get around his local area including to school in a wheelchair. He lives where the ground is very rough and there are ditches with open gutters which he used to jump across to get to school.

Since he can no longer move his legs, he certianly initally will only be able to move around in a wheelchair, I thought we had better try to make his environment a little more w/ch friendly.

Working with his school, a local building contractor, Amara's dad and a man from the Epilepsy Centre across the road who I have links with, Amara now has ramps outside his house and into the school, and also bridges across 4 points of the gutters to get over those safely too.

And what is even more amazing is that a very kind Rotary team member who had met Amara (you know who you are - thanks!) agreed to fund it all and the answer to a few more prayers meant that is was all finsihed by the time Amara was first ready to come outside and try his new wheelchair (which wa supplied by Mercy Ships) for the first time.

Praise God for his timing and provision.

Now please keep praying for Amara - his emotions, physical healing and his family and friends.