What a Week!

This week has been very interesting to say the least. There has been a stream of visitors which has been fun. It has rained hard most of the week. That is good for the river traveler, but not so much for the road traveler. There have been many sink holes caused and flooding and of course the usual landslides. Please pray for travel mercies for those of us who travel a lot.

Ken has been trying for the last couple of weeks to get the latest census data from the area. The word here is that there are 16,000 Chayahuita now and we’d like to see how they are divided up. We did manage to get a list of communities in each district, unfortunately it doesn’t say what tribe lives where and there are many with the same name. Hopefully we can get some better data than what the city has given us.

Also, for the last month Ken has been trying to get a wheelchair for a man named Raul from Nueva Vida. When we first met him a couple of years ago he already had both of his arms amputated due to diabetes or at least that is what he was told the reason was. He was trying desperately to get prosthesis or at least a hook for one arm to be able to function better. After many consultations he was turned down. Evidently if it is diabetes that is plaguing him, it is not being treated. Now he has had to have a leg amputated. He is “getting around” (and I use that term very loosely) in a wheelchair that has wheels but no tires and one of the bars at the bottom is missing. There had been a campaign giving away wheelchairs but the hospital said they had none left. Then Ken went to the mayor’s office to see what they could do and got the same response. Finally after all this time Raul has been put on a waiting list to receive a chair when the next delivery arrives. Praise God. Please pray for him as he has also been told by some people from a different doctrine that he lost his limbs because of his sin. Ken and Pancho have been counseling him on this issue.