We are headed to LaGlah village again on foot. We had donned our backpacks and told PeeWah, our beloved neighbor, where we were going in case other patients come looking for us. Up, up ever upwards we climb. It is so hot and so sticky. We had gone at least 4 kilometers up, when way down below we could hear some voices calling: “BletJaw, TharaMu” (Respectful Karen word for female teacher),”wait, we are coming. Don’t leave us. We are sick!”
We waited and the distant calling back and forth continued, “PeeWah told us you left for LaGlah, we are hurrying to catch up.” Then “We know TharaMu walks fast!” The loud calling steadily came closer and clearer until a worn out man appeared. When he got closer he panted out the words, “I am about to die climbing these mountains.” But he was in good humor. Soon another panting man appeared, so glad that we had waited.
As we listened to their complaints we pulled the contents out of our backpacks and laid them out beside the steep path. ‘Clinic on the pathway!’ We had everything we needed to take good care of their aliments, even two vitamin ‘B’ injections for the man with leg and arm pain. These vitamins are so good for these ‘B’ deficient people. It is certainly another ‘first’ for Tucker to give IM injections on a steep dirt pathway in the midst of the jungle floor! I don’t believe that is the setting that his nursing instructors at Southern University taught him to do it in!
Here they are, so happy that they had found us. Now they have some lingering thoughts about God, and also some things that will help them get well.
We really enjoyed getting to know these men and spent quite a lot of time teaching them ways to take better care of their health. After a beautiful prayer for them, their families, and their rice crops we said good-bye and continued on to LaGlah village.
Once in LaGlah we received a warm welcome. I received a wonderful hug from the girl that we had helped by building her a house. We had not seen each other for a very long time.
These are certainly beautiful people
They need your prayers!
ChaDree is not feeling well now. I do not know if the cancer is getting the best of him, or if he is just plain sick with a virus. But he did not look good and spent his time lying on his mat in the back room. We had worship with them all. Please pray for ChaDree! He was well on our last visit just 8 days before.
Please pray for the Karen people in the BYT mountains that they may understand the truth and love Jesus!