Elle* is part of a medical ministry team on the Indian Ocean Islands. Recently a blind mother, who had received no antenatal care, delivered twins at their hospital weighing 1.3 and 1.5kg. She had no money to go to the neonatal unit in the city, so they were kept on the postnatal ward, using ‘kangaroo care’ to keep their temperatures up (placing them skin-to-skin with mum or a relative and holding them in place with a scarf tied around) and a lot of prayer! Praise the Lord, they’re currently doing well and gaining weight! But it does reaffirm the need for a neonatal unit there. Pray for Elle and the team as they plan and try to ensure they do the simple, important things well. Mary* and family have been busy sorting their cloves for sale. This and other things, mean they haven’t studied in ages. Elle wondered if Mary* was still interested. But after a long conversation when she offered Mary* many ways of saying no and assured her of her ongoing friendship, Mary is firm about continuing to study once the cloves are sorted. Elle wants to ‘relaunch’ their studies by retelling the contextualised good news presentation they use (the kingdoms of light and darkness). Please pray that this would be memorable and make sense of the rest of the stories.

* Name changed for security reasons