Support Update
Thank you so much for your continued support! We continue to receive new responses for prayer and financial support. At this point we are at 61% of our 150 desired prayer partners and have reached 76% of what is needed for our finances. Praise the Lord!
Simeon’s Story
We need to share of God’s goodness to us through the birth of our son Simeon. It is a pretty neat story!
Before beginning the story, we should explain that through Kim’s experience and knowledge in the healthcare industry and with what we had learned in our birthing (read “modern day Lamaze”) class, we had decided we would like to have as natural of a birth as possible. We had a Nurse Midwife instead of a doctor and were planning on doing as much as possible at home during labor before heading to the hospital. Unfortunately, things did not go according to plan.
To begin with, Kim had some early signs of preeclampsia (high blood pressure, swelling, and additional protein in the urine) heading into the delivery date. This caused a little bit of anxiety for us and our midwife heading into it.
Early on Simeon’s due date, March 4th, at 3 a.m., Kim’s water broke, but since she was not having major contractions, we decided to wait until 7:00 a.m. to paige our midwife. When we were able to get a hold of her, she told us to come on in to the hospital and get setup. Even though Kim’s contractions were not advanced, with the preclampsia symptoms, she didn’t want to take any chances.
So we headed in and by 9:30 a.m., Kim was all hooked up to the equipment and had a pitocin drip started to have the labor induced. The pitocin definitely worked as hard contractions quickly started and lasted for about 8 hours. At around 5:30 p.m., after going through a little over 8 hours of grueling contractions which resulted in a lot of sickness, we were seeing very little progress. Kim was only dilated 1 cm. We could see that this was going to be a long haul and decided that Kim could not do this forever, so we opted for the epidural.
The epidural was met with a lot of relief. Much comfort and rest resulted. In addition, the pitocin drip amount was increased and so the contractions were strengthened with no pain to mama. Kim was able to sleep pretty well while she labored. Unfortunately, not much progress was made with the delivery. By 7:00 a.m. on March 5th, Kim was only dilated 3 cms and Simeon’s head had hardly descended. Our midwife consulted with the doctor on call and they both felt the birth was not going to occur vaginally. Being folks with good common sense, we followed their advice and decided to go with a C-Section.
Simeon Carter Delp was born at 8:34 a.m. on March 5th via C-Section weighing 6 lbs 9 ozs and having a 19.25 inch length. Our first family picture is at the top.
Here is the kicker: during the C-Section, the doctor noted that umbilical cord was extremely short, as well as it was wrapped around Simeon’s neck. In the end, the birth could not have occurred vaginally as every time he would try to descend, the cord would wrap around his neck and not allow the descent.
We are thankful to our risen Lord Jesus Christ and his provision of a healthy and well cared for birth our son and a healthy operation for mama. Both mom and son are doing well and recovering from the ordeal. Simeon has started nursing from mom.
We decided on the name Simeon because of the biblical reference in the Old Testament to the 2nd Tribe of Israel and in Luke 2 to the priest who was aware that Jesus Christ was the messiah. In Hebrew, Simeon means “obedient” and “listening”. We really like this name!!!
You can see more pictures of Simeon on our Facebook pages. Thanks for reading!
3rd Missionary Added!
Read All About It!!!
We have just updated our Support Letter and you can read it here! We are getting closer and closer to getting to Ecuador with being 65% funded with 53% of our prayer support in. We are also closer to having our first child, but that’s just the quick facts.
Read everything here: winter_2010 (<- CLICK ME)
55% and Climbing!
Just a quick note to let you know that we are now up to 55% in financial support commitments! Praise God!!! We just keep getting closer and closer thanks to your gernerosity and support!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! Thank you for your support in 2009 and for your continued support in 2010. We are reposting the documents for downloading that you may be looking for:
Baking for Jesus!
Kim along with the help from our church’s Mission Board put on a Bake Sale last weekend with proceeds going to support our future ministry. It was a huge success!!! We had a ton of donated baked goods that were delicious! And a lot of people had fun in taking part in supporting us by supporting their taste buds. It was a lot of fun and very successful for us. Thanks to everyone who was involved and helped out!!
Certified and Approved!
Congratulations goes out to my wonderful wife as she has successfully passed her Family Nurse Practitioner exam!!! So, she is now a Certified and Approved Family Nurse Practitioner. This is just one more milestone on our long road to getting to the Mission Field. I am very proud of her and all of her hard work. Congratulations Kim!!!
Thanksgiving Wishes!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! We hope your Thanksgiving Holiday is a wonderful time with family and giving thanks for the many special blessings we have from the Lord in this last year!
Sorry that it has been so long since we have last posted but we have much to be thankful about.
We actually have very big news! We have been working hard to figure out what our language school and living arrangements in Ecuador were going to be. We now have them all figured out!!! It’s completely different than what we have been planning. Instead of going to Costa Rica for language school, we are actually going to be moving directly to Quito, Ecuador next June and moving into the apartment where we will be living the next two years. It is going to be vacated by someone that is currently living in it in July of 2010. So it will be perfect for us to move in and take the place over without having to repurchase a lot of the stuff the apartment already has. This huge blessing means that we don’t have to worry about moving to two different countries and getting the Visa’s for both countries. Instead, we can move directly to the place where we will be living for the next two years. This will make it much easier for us with a newborn baby.
Kim’s pregnancy is going well and she is studying hard for her final Board Certification exam for becoming a Nurse Practitioner. This test is December 2nd so please bathe her in prayer that day!
Because we now have our living situation and language school figured out and also that now we will have a baby with us, we had to refigure our budget. It did go up significantly. Thanks be to God that we also received a stream of supporters that committed to partnering with us at the same time, so our support percentage still went up! We now have 64 individuals/families that have agreed to pray for us while in Ecuador and we are looking to have 150, so that means we are at 43% in prayer support. We are also up to 46% of what is needed for finances. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT!!! We are thank you for you all this Thanksgiving!
The Santiago Partnership
