Good evening
A while ago, I hurt my foot and suspected some broken bones and that was just confirmed on this trip. Hurt my foot again and this time it’s really bad. Luckily we got a boot here and I am limping around with a boot on my foot. Nothing serious just need to keep off this foot. At least I am over my bad flu, The cough is persisting but nothing like a week ago. Anton and Toinette are doing great as well.
We made a quick trip into the jungle to go and present the Gospel to the people of Rum Jopon. They requested that we come and talk to them. Din and Curtis talked to all of them and shared the Gospel with them. Now they know what this Jesus is all about. Some women are very interested but some men are not. We need to let this sink into their souls for them to digest this first. Unfortunately, they are fed a lie for so long, that Jesus’s religion is also good so we can take that with our belief.
To nourish them, we need to do follow-up work. Please pray with us as we already asked Din to help and he is praying about it. We discovered a new easy road to get to them and that makes it easier and faster to get into the jungle. This is the start of something amazing as they are so open to listening to us. It was wonderful to see them come back in the afternoon and gather so we could speak to them. Curtis gave some Bibles and Audio Bibles as well.
We are planning another trip on the 12th of December with some more friends. This time we will do the round trip again with some medical gear. Pray with us for this open door and how to manage this correctly.
While there we asked about the schooling of the children. They have a school that is funded by a Japanese organization and they have a teacher but they have problems. Because of mismanagement of funds the poor teachers do not get any salary and stop teaching. She is very discouraged and hopes for a solution. Such a shame that some of them rather think of the money than of the education of the children.
I came home to a Christmas tree and seems the festive season is here. There are so many parties this time of the year to celebrate Christmas and tell the story of Jesus. Let’s pray for open hearts and ears to hear about the Lord. For many children and adults this will be the first time to hear about the Lord, so pray that it will reach their hearts.
The book we are reading now is about a 19-year-old boy trying to find this particular Indian group and tell them about the Lord. Amazing story. Read it with your children, they will like it.
Not that it was any easier. Life was still boring there. I still had amoebic dysentery, and I still passed blood every morning. But I did make progress with the language and soon was able to speak reasonably well. That helped greatly. The more I spoke the more I began to understand these people, and the more I understood the more I wanted to help them. What had seemed like ignorance or stupidity didn’t seem like that now. I would need to remember this lesson many times: before you really understand a people, don’t judge.
Olson, Bruce. Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe (p. 66). Charisma House. Kindle Edition.
Love to you all
Rossouw-clan
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