God is good!

Friends and Family,

Thank you all so much for your prayers, love, and support (in many forms). We, (Scott and Amy) have received, heard and read about all the people who are praying for Jonah and us and we can hardly believe how many people care for Jonah/us. If you continue to be lead, pray for Jonah - he has come a long way, but there still may be a long road ahead and we know the only way we will make it is for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to continue to carry us every day.

We want to testify that no matter what happens tomorrow or in the future with Jonah - God has already done a miracle through him in bringing him this far. Two weeks before Jonah was born the perinatologist told us Jonah wouldn't make it to his birth because his heart would fail, and we should begin to plan for our next pregancy. Even if he did make it out alive his lungs would be uninflatable and wouldn't survive the day of his birth. Our response was let God make that decision. Then two days after Jonah was born a group of doctors at UCLA told us that Jonah needed surgery as soon as possible and his lunges were too underdeveloped - they said it would be a miracle if Jonah made it through the surgeries he needed and got off the osculating ventilator. Once again our response was to put Jonah's life in God's hands and let Him decide to take Jonah home or bless us with a miracle. Well, as you all know Jonah is alive and doing a little better every day - therefore, God has already preformed miracles in Jonah. We continue to pray for Jonah's complete healing and that he would get off the ventilator and be able to come home with us.

The staff at the NICU often have comments about how amazed they are that Jonah is still alive, how far he has come, and what a fighter he is. However, we know the truth - we don't have big faith, we have a big Creator and sustainer God.

Jonah is moving to the new Ronald Reagan Medical Center in the morning (Sunday). They have decided to slowly feed him more each day and go down on the iv fluids - so more of his nutrition will come from breast milk. He is almost off his pain medication-sedatives, but will always need a little something as long as he is on the ventilator. The vent settings are slowly coming down and we hope and pray God will grant Jonah the ability to breath on his own someday. His peritoneal dialysis is going well - they are getting off plenty of fluid. All in all he is doing well.

Once again, thank you all for your prayers and support - we hope to bless others the way the Lord has blessed us through all of you. Our prayer is that God would use Jonah's life to move others to seriously consider the claims of the Lord Jesus and who He says He is. (Creator God that came to earth in the flesh offering life eternal through His resurrection from the grave and death.) In doing so, obtain by grace a saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, our only hope for eternal life in glory. If your not sure about who Jesus is please read the Gospel of John, it will be well worth it!! With Love,

~Scott and Amy Goodman Romans 10:9 & Ephesians 2:8-9