We are excited to announce...

THAT BABY #3 IS ON THE WAY!!!!!

We found out over Christmas that we are expecting our 3rd child. While this was not in our plans right now, we have come to find out in the last year that God's plans always seem to be different and so much better than our own plans. Nevertheless, we are very excited to welcome our third baby into the world this summer. However, along with pregnancy comes many difficulties for our family, so PLEASE keep us in your prayers these next few months. Desiray tends to have severe sickness for the first 4 months or so of her pregnancy and it has already hit very hard. She was recently on IV fluid for 4 days straight to monitor dehydration from being so sick. Thankfully the medical team at PHF is able to give her IVs and monitor her during this time. This helps a lot with the expense part of things. We have so much support and love from the staff here at PHF which makes things a bit easier. Please keep John in your prayers as a lot more responsiblity has fallen on him as Desiray takes a break to get herself feeling better again. And, most importantly please pray for this new life growing inside Desiray.

We love and miss you all and are so grateful for a great prayer support team.

Blessings,
John, Desiray,
Alyson, Austin and baby #3 due this summer.

We've Arrived back in China

We arrived back in China on January 4th. We had a wonderful visit with Family and Friends while we were back in the US, but it is great to be back in China as well. We missed all the babies at PHF as well as the PHF staff. We are so thankful we were able to see so many people while we were back. We were welcomed back with open arms by so many. Thank you for your prayers for our family during our time in the states and while traveling.

To update you on a few of the kids who were waiting to have their heart surgeries. Adrian and Israel had their surgeries just a couple weeks ago. Adrian's went well but is still in ICU, he will need a few months to recover and then he will require 3 more surgeries before his heart is healed. However, Israel's did not go so well and has had to have 2 more emergency surgeries since. His recovery does not look good. PLEASE pray for this fragile little life. We continue to take comfort in knowing that God holds all of these children's lives in His hands. Each child belongs to him. Please see pictures of Adrian and Israel below. Parker and Joseph will hopefully have their surgeries sometime next month. They decided to hold off a little longer. Please continue to pray for these children that they would get their life saving surgery soon. Especially pray for sweet Israel that God would heal his fragile, little body. Israel is such a sweet boy and we know God has a plan for his life-even if his life ends up being shorter than we hoped. We lift up this child to God and know He holds His life in His hands-as He does all of our lives.

Wishing you all a Blessed New Year,

The Christen Family