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[Editor's note: My mother-in-law has shared her testimony many times in many places, and I am pleased
to say that she has agreed to share it here, too.]

WHY A NICE JEWISH GIRL NAMED HER DAUGHTER CHRISTINE

By Gail Smith Wright

This really is a two-part question: why did I name my daughter Christine, and why was I open to doing so,
being a nice Jewish girl. I’ll start with the why-she-got-the-name first.

I had had three pregnancies by the time I became pregnant with Christine: one had ended in the birth of
my son, Christine’s older brother, and two had ended in miscarriage. Christine’s older brother had to
have a complete blood transfusion at birth due to a blood incompatibility problem: my type O blood was
causing antigens to form against his type A blood. Because my husband had type A blood, and type A is
always dominant over type O, any child we had would have type A blood. This was most likely the reason
for my two previous miscarriages, according to a hematologist we later consulted.

When I became pregnant with Christine, of course I was so worried that I would have another
miscarriage. Not only that, but I also had three different viruses during the first trimester of my pregnancy
with her, the time that the baby is most susceptible to being affected.

From the beginning, I prayed, and continued to do so all during the pregnancy. As Samuel was dedicated
to the Lord (1 Samuel 1:11), so I dedicated the child of this fourth pregnancy from my first knowledge of it.
This child shall be named Christine or Christopher and dedicated to my messiah, Y’shua. (“Christ”
means messiah in Greek.)

Christine was born with very little effects from the blood incompatibility problem. Moreover, she not only
survived being subjected to those three different viruses during her first trimester, she was blessed with
many gifts from the Lord: physical health, mental acuity, and artistic and musical abilities.

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