Some how writing this makes it even more real. My sister, Jennifer Jestes-Chana, has been in Mozambique Africa running an orphanage for almost 20 years. Last week, Wednesday November 6th, she gave birth in Africa to her second child via planned c-section. Everything went normal and her and Chana welcomed a beautiful healthy baby Reagan Renee into this world. My parents were blessed to be there for the birth and to help with her oldest son Lincoln. Jennifer was discharged from the hospital on that Friday but was already in a lot of pain. She was swelling from what she thought was residual carpal tunnel and also experiencing symptoms of a stomach virus. By Sunday morning it had reached the point that they needed to take Jennifer back to the hospital to be readmitted. They began antibiotics for infection and treating her symptoms. Her condition continued to slowly worsen, the swelling continued to get worse and she developed small rash like spots. As her conditioned continued to deteriorate instead of improve, they made the decision to transfer her to the intensive care unit Monday morning. After running some test they determined that she had developed Thrombocytopenia (ITP), possibly triggered by the infection, an allergic reaction, or giving birth. ITP is basically a condition in which you do not have enough platelets to help you clot. It may occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks your own platelets. They are treating Jennifer for this and improvements will be slow. She is currently stable but remains in the ICU for the time being. Jennifer will need to see a hematologist for treatment once she is discharged from the hospital. I am asking you to join us in trusting God for full recovery and to guide each step. 

Having “hope” commonly means “a wish of the heart” but HOPE IN GOD is the confident expectation of what GOD has promised and its strength is in HIS faithfulness. 

Jennifer and Chana could use your help as they face the unexpected costs of emergency intensive care to save Jennifers life. The cost of care and treatment will reach upwards of $15,000-$25,000. The cost of right care, treatment, and medicines are not as accessible as in America. If you feel that you can help, every offer of help would be humbly accepted.

If you would like your gift to be a tax deductible donation you can do that through Project Liberty’s Nonprofit and designate it to ‘Jennifer’s Medical expenses’. Either via PayPal or by check. 

Send checks made out to Project Liberty to:

Project Liberty International, Inc.
PO Box 1025
Bethany, OK. 73008



PayPal link:

https://mobile.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout-mobile&useraction=commit&token=EC-84H35901EW525014F#m-2

www.libertymozambique.org


Thank you again for the outpouring of love and prayers for our family.
I will continue to add updates as they come in but progress will be slow.



Help Jennifer heal to get back to her new baby.

Chana and Jennifer introducing Lincoln to his little sister Reagan.

Baby Reagan Renee needs her mommy

Jennifer is very lethargic, swollen and in pain.
Jennifer is gonna hate me for posting her in this condition. But as her little sister, I think I can get away with it.