Friday came and a huge amount of people who had been gone out of the village for over two months had come back so we went to greet them at the river. One having a new baby, which I was excited to meet. I was very happy that I could catch up with them on Saturday since I hadn’t seen them for over a year. Saturday afternoon came and we were doing our normal family board game when the whole big family that I hadn’t seen in a while come up to the house. I went out so I could have a good chat with them all. I had printed a lot of the families here pictures of their families that I have taken in the past and put them in small dollar store booklets (they love it). So I was able to hand those out to the few families. As I was talking with all of them the councilman came up saying he needed help right away. Apparently a man was stabbed in his buttocks over four times with a very sharp spear like knife. Now back in May 2022 I was trained through “MMI”, Medical Missionary Intensive. During my training we were taught to tourniquet for “stop the bleed”. Now when anyone comes up telling me that they’ve been cut with a knife my brain automatically goes to the worst. Thankfully I have Caleb who is always saying let’s go evaluate the situation before you jump to conclusions. I left with a whole bunch of medical supplies and went to see the situation. As he walked down to the village there was lots of shouting and arguing over the entire situation, lots of people yelling and screaming all I wanted to do was get to the patient, he was laying down on the muddy ground in a pool of watery blood, all of his blood had congealed and it was very thick clots on the ground. This was a good sign. The knife went into his buttocks about 4 inches hitting the bone. I have a powder that I am able to dump right on top of it to stop the bleed as well as tourniquet his leg up in the groin area.
Now let me give you a little backstory of this man, Jordi is his name and he himself is not a good man. He had hurt his wife numerous times already and just a few weeks ago I have been taking care of her leg where he shot a spear through it. I don’t ever want to wish ill on anyone, But honestly he had to coming to him. I would never deny anyone medical care so controlling the bleeding was the biggest part which we did and started him on a round of antibiotics as well as washing the wounds. He had some cuts on his arms as well, which were just surface wounds. The next day was Sunday and the Family and I were going to a village 10 minutes away. I went and checked on him because they changed him from the very bloody underwear he was in to having a towel on, I was able to change the dressing which looked great except that this new area what bleeding fresh blood. ( They thought I was stupid and nicked, with a razor, the inside of his butt cheek so that I would believe that the dagger went into him all the way and that they could get the criminal in jail for a longer period of time. When I just dismissed the situation and finished up with me wound care I think they are all little annoyed I didn’t take the bait.)
Caleb preached from 1Corinthians 6:9 and we had a good turn out. I was able to talk to the person who stabbed him, he lives in this village. I told him he still needs to turn from sin and understand that only through Christ could he be saved I also told him that they were planning on calling the police and that he would probably going to be going to jail all for his stupidity of what he did. When we came back to our village I went and checked on Jordi, remember he is a criminal and there are many things that he’s done in the past that are very evil, but he’s my captive audience since I have to tend to his rear.
I told him that it’s time to turn away from this life of sim that’s made him so evil I asked him, what good has his sin brought him and to look at where he is now. I also told him is there any other white missionary whose come and cared for him as Caleb and I? I said I gave up my life in America to come and help you for you to understand the Gospel of Christ. I guess I was overwhelmed by this point as I spoke because I mean why would I start to lose it? Literally crying, which is not something they do in front of each other let alone me of another culture… but I was really, really, upset about how they expect me to help them in every way medically and I do the best I can and yet they never want to hear anything that Caleb has to say regarding the Gospel of Christ, not the truth, nor the true and living Word of God. As I broke down I explained to them that I do care for each and everyone of their faces that I do care for their souls and that Jordi was given another chance and that he should totally turn around and change his way. I said to him you’re the one stabbed laying on the ground you could’ve been stabbed in some other place of your body which would’ve killed you but you weren’t you were stabbed in your rear. I told him how I cared for his soul and that I didn’t want him to be in hell. I told him how he needed to turn from his ways of being evil towards others and ask for forgiveness from Christ to repent of his sin and forgiveness from the people he had hurt in the past. I don’t know if anything I said mattered but I did let them see that I’m human to. I explained that I can’t constantly have all this pressure of all of them all the time and they think that I’m not weary and I don’t grow weak. I too need forgiveness, I too am a sinner and have turned from my sin and have been saved. I don’t know what it will be like when we return this week to the village. I PRAY FOR A REVIVAL!
Lord HEAR my prayer!
he was ok here, just in a lot of pain
me checking his vitals and they were great, showing he didn’t have a loss of to much blood
Jordi is in the yellow shirt (before the stabbing)
Caleb preaching.