On Christmas Day, 2004, my co-worker Chris “Win” Mattina* and his wife Jill* delivered a baby girl, who they named Hope Natalie. Hope was due to be born in March of 2005, so this delivery by emergency C-Section came as a bit of a surprise. Even more of a surprise to those of us here at work, since Win had not yet made an announcement that they were expecting a baby.

The Mattinas have set up a ***website|http://www.hopenatalie.com/*** with a photo gallery and a blog in order to share their experience with others. If you have a moment, stop on over and send your prayers, congratulations, and well wishes. I’ve turned off comments and pings for this post, in hopes that I can direct all of the goodwill over there.

As of the ***last update|http://www.hopenatalie.com/?postid=7***, Hope Natalie is doing well and it sounds like she is receiving the best in medical care. Please pray for the Mattinas and let them know that you’re thinking of them by way of the comments on their website.

* For those who don’t know, Chris and Jill are fellow ***Gordon College|http://www.gordon.edu/*** alumni, and Chris was in Gordon’s bell choir with Becky during her freshman year at Gordon.