Daniel was born with a cleft lip and palate. He lives with his parents and his brother in a poor barrio in Honduras. Initially, the couple’s biggest challenge was getting Daniel to eat enough, his mother, Melida, explained, emotion in her voice. “The doctor said to give him 2 ounces of milk at a time. A normal baby can drink that in a few minutes. It took Daniel an hour-and-a-half to drink that tiny amount,” she said sadly.

Daniel was losing weight. His worried father, Hector, told us, “The doctor said that he had a case like this where the baby died at 10-months because of malnourishment. He said we need to schedule an operation right away.”

But the young parents could not afford the multiple surgeries needed to repair Daniel’s cleft lip and palate. As Christians, they’d been pray

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