29/08/2026
This week a precious 4 year old girl died on the Purus. The child had been sick with some sort of bronchial issue. Instead of taking her to the medical clinic, her parents first took her to the witch doctor. At the last minute when all the tricks hadn’t worked, they brought her to the medical clinic. There was no power in town that night to get her on oxygen immediately and it took nearly and hour to reestablish power to the clinic and start treatment. She died within the next hour.
This isn’t the first time this has happened. We’ve had parents bring us their children who we pray for and give medicine. Only to later hear they’ve decided to go with the witch doctor’s advice. And the child die.
These children are at the mercy of their parents and their parents live in darkness. Change here in the jungle is generational. It’s slow and it’s heartbreaking. People resist and don’t trust change, including medical care and the gospel. But we know that the gospel DOES CHANGE LIVES!
Please join us in praying for these children. Pray for their parents, pray for their little hearts, pray that the gospel changes them! They don’t have to live in the darkness, but can be brought into glorious light!
“The people who walk in darkness will see a great light; those who live in a dark land, the light will shine on them.” Isaiah 9:2