I want to ask all of the readers of my blog to add to their prayer lists, the one year old baby McKenzie. McKenzie is in need of a liver/small bowel transplant in order to live. She has spent much of her short life in hospitals. Her teen birthing mother has left McKenzie to foster care. By the grace of God, a foster couple – Chuck and Jean whose own children are all grown – are caring for McKenzie and moving to adopt her.
At left is a picture of baby McKenzie, her foster Mom, Jean, and my daughter, Julianna, who as a result of her senior project in Allied Health is working with baby McKenzie and her foster parents. Julie herself has suffered from a critical kidney disease, and is learning about her own health situation through this project.
Most of all, I ask you to remember McKenzie and her foster parents, Jean and Chuck, in your prayers. All of us who advocate a right to life position, also need to know that advocating bringing all babies to full term means we have to offer up care and financial resources to provide for some of them. This is the price of being pro-life.
If you would like to donate toward helping Jean and Chuck care for McKenzie, you can send a check to St. Paul Orthodox Church and note on the check that it is for McKenzie. Send the check to
St. Paul Orthodox Church
4451 Wagner Rd.
Dayton, OH 45440
McKenzie and her foster parents are not members of our parish. But as one way to fulfill what Christ taught us (see my blog Pascha as our Judgment Day), we are offering support for McKenzie as a right to life issue.
She will most definitely be in my prayers.
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Fr. Ted,
Please keep us posted on Baby McKenzie’s situation.
I do plan to keep posting about McKenzie. Thank you for your prayers. Our parish learned of this little stranger in the world, truly the least of Christ’s sisters, and we will endeavor to treat her as Christ – as Christ taught us to! As of today (March 5) there is nothing new to report. She was not well enough to be considered for a recent transplant possibility. So we continue to pray for her and her foster parents.