This is the third night in a row that he has stayed here at Shiloh.  He's an assistant pastor from Daoula and has stayed here numerous times in the past.  But this time he needs a place to stay to be near his mother-in-law.  She's in her mid-50s and is a strong Christian.  When he got the phone call that she had contracted meningitis, he was on the next bus to Yaounde to help out.  After getting her to a local hospital and under a doctor's care, he came to Shiloh for the night.  As he left early the next morning, he told us that he was going back to visit his mother-in-law and then would be returning to Daoula.  But that's not how things turned out.  He did visit his mother-in-law, and he did go to the bus station to buy a ticket for his return trip.  It was at that moment that he received a phone call from the hospital telling him that his mother-in-law had taken a turn for the worse.  He rushed back across town to be with her.  The doctor informed him that her kidneys were now failing and she would need to go on dialysis.  He stayed with her through the first treatment and then came back to Shiloh for night number two.  He left Shiloh at 6 a.m. today, assuring me that no matter what happened, he was going directly back to Daoula.  He had to.  He had not brought a change of cloths with him.  It was late afternoon when the call came.  Could he have his room back for one more night?  He had barely arrived back home in Daoula when the hospital again phoned to say his mother-in-law had taken another turn for the worse.  So he boarded the bus and headed back to Yaounde.  He was with her for her second kidney dialysis treatment and then brought his weary body back to Shiloh.  The doctor says she will have one more dialysis treatment tomorrow morning.  Then they will do tests to see if the kidneys are functioning properly.  If not, things will not go well for his mother-in-law.