Missionary unknowingly adopts baby with HIV

Missionary unknowingly adopts baby with HIV; God brings miraculous healing
By Mark Ellis, Special to ASSIST News Service
SANGKHLABURI, Thailand (ANS -- March 2, 2105)  -- When Rolyn Cadiz, a single Filipina missionary to Burma, got a call about some parents who wanted to give up their baby, she was wary.
“I said I didn’t want it,” she recalls. Rolyn was 32 at the time, unmarried, and very focused on her work along the Thai-Burma border with refugee children.
She went to meet the parents. “Why are you giving up this baby?” she asked.
“If we buy milk for her we won’t have money for ourselves to live,” they told her.
“Won’t you miss your baby? Won’t you cry when she leaves?”
“No, no,” they insisted.
Rolyn adopted the baby and gave her a new name, Zoe Elise, which means ‘life consecrated to God.’
Shortly after the adoption, she discovered the dark-haired infant had an eye infection. She decided she would take her in for treatment.
The night before they went in, Rolyn couldn’t sleep. “God made me intercede for Zoe for the entire night. I couldn’t stop praying for her,” she recalls.
The next day, Rolyn took Zoe to the Kwai River Christian Hospital in Sangkhlaburi, Thailand. She discovered the eye infection was more serious than imagined. “The doctor told me if we didn’t bring her here she could have been blind.”
Then she was startled by even more shocking news. Zoe tested positive for HIV.
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