The fluorescent lights glowed dimly over the heads of the waiting patients. It was just before 5 a.m. They had come early to be sure to be seen by the doctors on this Friday morning. As they sat quietly, some with eyes closed, they heard a voice behind them. A woman, obviously pregnant, even more obviously in labor, was walking in the entrance to the hospital. She was talking to herself in English, but when an attendant came running up with a wheelchair, she switched to Thai and told him, “I can’t sit down. The baby is coming now!”

Then, before this crowd of witnesses, she squatted down and delivered her child in the hospital lobby, picked him up and held him to her chest. Her husband ran in just as she was picking up the baby and sitting down in the wheelchair. The people in the hospital lobby had never seen anything like this before in their lives. This was a story they would never forget and would probably tell for quite some time.

Our son, Ephram, entered the world on October 5 at 5 o’clock in the morning. We praise the Lord for a safe, albeit unconventional delivery.

Even more amazing than the miracle of new life that the people in the lobby witnessed is the miracle of lives changed by the power of Jesus. We have been witnesses to the way Christ has changed our lives, and we pray that we can be witnesses to the changed lives of many Northern Khmer brothers and sisters.

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