Gil Bates, Lawson Bates, Kelly Bates
The fourth-oldest bates sibling has just returned home from a three-month stay in the Philippines. He departed right before Thanksgiving and only planned to stay a week, but the medical case of a young girl for whom he was advocating kept him away for much longer. He met the girl while on a previous disaster relief trip and, in just a few months, will return to the Philippines with a doctor to accompany her and her mother back to the United States so she can receive a life-saving surgery.
Lawson left soon after Khloe Bates' birth but missed the arrivals of Holland Paine and Layla Stewart.
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