‘My son got five siblings – one for every year he prayed!’

After Carrie Jones had her first child, it was nine years until she had another successful pregnancy. She never imagined she would give birth to quintuplets – thanks to the determined prayers of her eldest

Carrie and her husband, Gavin, met when they were just six years old, as their parents worked with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Colombia. But it wasn’t until years later that they reunited and fell in love while at university. 

Gavin was training to be a missionary pilot, and Carrie an epidemiologist. They married in 1999, and their son Isaac was born in 2004. Eighteen months later they moved to Papua New Guinea with Wycliffe Bible Translators.