On her fourth birthday, Ruth Shama lay in a hospital bed, gravely ill and unresponsive. Diagnosed with meningitis, her survival seemed unlikely. “She looked nearly lifeless,” remembered Jamie, a former missionary with JiHM who visited her that day in 2015. “But we continued to pray.”

On July 11, Moïse will stand among the graduating class of Grace Emmanuel School. He’ll be 19 years old. He’ll be smiling. And behind that smile will be a story of pain, survival, and the kind of love that changes everything.