Update from the Tag Family

Update from the Tag Family - Indonesia

Dear friends and family,

Thank you so much for your prayers and emails. You all have been such a huge encouragement to us. We took Alaiyah to the local children’s hospital on Sunday morning and they admitted her into the hospital and started her on a IV with strong doses of antibiotics. She will be in the hospital until Friday and is doing so much better. Praise God for your prayers. Praise God for a great children’s hospital here in Pontianak. Her fever broke Sunday night and is now normal. Her leg continues to heal well with the antibiotics and she is eating. Please continue to pray for her recovery. Tomorrow the Doctor said they will take her off the IV and start giving her antibiotics orally. Pray that as we take her off the iv that her stomach will be able to handle the antibiotics orally. Pray that the incision in her leg will keep healing. Pray for a complete recovery before we go to Salatiga to start language training. We won’t leave until we know she has recovered. It has been amazing to see the hand of God through your prayers and also the missionaries here in Pontianak. So many hands of help have been reaching out to us with people staying in the hospital with LaNada and Alaiyah all night to translate and help. Please keep praying for Alaiyah and a full recovery. We serve an awesome God and He has wrapped His arms around us and Alaiyah in these past days and cried with us and lifted our eyes up toward Him. Thank you God.

With much love and appreciation,

Nathan, LaNada, Alaiyah and Anikah Tag

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