Well I not am sure what a normal week is for anyone one, but since I don't have any major news I thought I could just recap our week.
The picture above is something we often come up against while traveling down the road. It slows down your journey to say the least.
We have been at the hospital checking up on a church member who contracted tetanus. He got cut by something that was rusty and since he had not had the vaccination he contracted the disease. Normally a person dies with in about 24 hrs, but God had mercy on him and he survived. He swelled up like balloon all over his entire body and could not really talk for about two weeks. For over ten days he had very little sleep because something that would resemble a person being shocked with electricity kept disturbing him - but in reality it was something that was giving him a stabbing feeling in his heart. In such a state you could wonder if he could make it, but he did. If you don't have your tetanus shot - go get it today! No one should got through such an experience when a vaccination is available. I can not adequately describe the pain this young man went through and the way he looked - all I can tell you is that it was not good at all.
I had loaned my small iPod to a pastor at our church. He walked out his office for a short time and when he came back someone had stolen it. The thing that always gets me about these things is that it seems like most of the theft we experience is at the church. Of course we spend a lot time there, but it always makes my head spin. In our men's breakfast this morning we had a discussion about the corruption here in our nation and in the church at large. The conclusion was, since most children do not grow up with a sense of right and wrong in the home it's very hard for them to make the right decision later on in life. If that's true (and I believe it is) make sure your children grow up in home where right and wrong is discerned....otherwise your nation may someday end in the state we are in - where your own church becomes a "den of thieves".
On a more positive note, we had a great testimony in our Sunday service the week before last. Human sacrifice has been on the rise here in the last few months as witchdoctors have been targeting not just children (as they usually do) but older children and adults also. Human sacrifice is not something that went away in the stone age - it is still practice here. People do not give themselves willing they are tricked and or kidnapped and then brought to a witchdoctor to be beheaded and whatever else they do. This church member got up and told this story about how he had been targeted as human sacrifice. They had tricked him into believing a story that was false to get him to the shrine where the killing was going to take place. He openly admitted he was not "prayed up" for the whole experience - but said that in surprise to him when they brought him to the witchdoctor a mysterious wind followed him into the shrine. In the shrine they had a fire that was burning and the wind he brought in with him blew the fire out. The witchdoctor began to feel very uncomfortable with this wind that followed this young man into the shrine. They began to investigate and found out found that they had the wrong guy. So they sent him away. His point was "God is with us -even when we are not prayed up". I will leave you with that thought, and recommend you still pray but remember that even if you don't - God is still with you!
