Please God, not Africa!

If you were along for the ride of our first journey to Togo and kept up with our story, you would know that we mentioned a particular doctor that was a huge part of the treatment of our kids and became a huge part of our hearts and lives. Todd Dekryger. His picture can be found here and there throughout my posts of 2012 and 2013.  He was an amazing doctor and an amazing friend.  I think when someone prays over your kids and then plays a massive part in their healing and restoration, you come to think pretty highly of that person.  We LOVED Todd. You'll notice I'm speaking about Todd in the past tense.  For some reason, on February 26th, 2016 (one year TO THE DAY that the Hospital of Hope opened), God saw fit to take to heaven our dear friend, amazing doctor, loving husband to Jennifer and fantastic father to Will, Grant, Luke and Drew. It's rough.  It was a series of unimaginable circumstances for the Togo North Team and Todd's family as Todd became very ill,

As soon as we told the kids that we needed to start raising support to go to Togo again, they immediately asked if I would make another "snake" to mark our progress. So I did! This is our snake.  Every stripe is $100 we need to raise to be able to reach our required funds.  This time around, we need to raise about $5800 per month.  It seems like so much. It's almost a thousand dollars more than last time.  There's a couple of reasons for that: 1. Our Canadian dollar isn't so hot. So the exchange rate to US dollars alone is a big jump in our support requirements. 2. We need to come home at some point.  Last time we went, we somehow missed a line item on our support document called "Flights Home" - thankfully, we had enough extra support (and the insurance company paid for Kylie and I to come home due to her medical situation) to pay for all seven of us to get back to Canada.  This time around however, we plan to stock pile a monthly amount so t