Hello all

This morning, our leader Matt Spainhour headed out from our home in Manzini to the airport in Johannesburg to go home to the states. Over the weekend he was swimming and jumped in and landed in the worst way on his back. He was taken to Nelspruit, South Africa to the hospital to have it checked out, and was told that he would need back surgery. One of the discs in his back is fractured and compressed. Two choices were given: surgery in Pretoria, South Africa and 6 weeks of physical therapy (by himself =[) or going home to get the surgery done.

Obviously, he took the latter option. Our team, needless to say is pretty heartbroken about it. Matt was and is an amazing leader and friend (and family member!) to our team and to many. His presence in our house will be dearly missed, but we know that God has some crazy plan worked out for this. So I am just asking for prayer for him and his family. He has a LONG flight back home, and there are a lot of logistics as to how he will be able to fly and what the surgery will be like when he gets back. So just pray for provision for all of the little things, and that he will get back safely. Also pray for his family back home! And his family here.

 

Thank you so much.

Alene