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Thank you!

God's love is poured through loving hands

God spares a life through missionaries caring for the downcast.

It was 4 in the afternoon and Natasha Flaugher’s husband, Scott, was sitting in the yard listening to language recordings.

Suddenly, someone was at the door. Natasha opened it to find an Elseng neighbor there, who asked her for a cup of milk for a sick friend, Nona. Natasha gave her the milk and reminded her to come back for medical help if it was needed.

A few minutes later, the neighbor returned, this time calling out as she approached. Nona was very sick, she told Natasha. She was unconscious and unresponsive. From the description, Natasha assumed it must be a bad case of malaria.

“This called for a plan of action,” Natasha says. Scott and Natasha and their children stopped to ask God to spare Nona’s life and to give them wisdom to care for her in ways that would show God’s own compassion and love for this young woman.

She called her co-worker, Carolyn Rowan, to go along with her, taking along medicine and a medical book. They put on their boots, grabbed a flashlight and headed down the path at 5:15.

As she departed, Natasha could hear Scott reassuring their four children.

When Natasha and Carolyn, arrived, they found the gravely ill Nona was being carried toward them. It was finally at this point that they were told that after a terrible beating by her husband, Nona had ingested poison in an attempt to end her life.

This new information changed everything. Natasha realized that they had brought the wrong medicine. Carolyn immediately rushed back down the trail to get charcoal and milk while Natasha cradled the desperately sick Nona’s head in her arms, massaging her locked jaws.

Natasha glanced up to see the porch surrounded by Elseng people. Sadly, the crowd of onlookers ridiculed all attempts to help the young woman.

“They told us by this, in their fatalistic way, that we were silly to try to help her. That it was useless,” Natasha explains.

Natasha and Carolyn quietly worked on Nona and begged God for a miracle.

Amazingly, Nona began to respond. At first she began to shake uncontrollably, prompting laughter from the apathetic onlookers. Then, with encouragement, she began to drink the meds. Natasha and Carolyn knew that God was at work.

Now the group of watching people grew quiet and some even offered to help. And abruptly, the poison was expelled from Nona’s body.

It was 10 p.m. The eyes of all the gathered women and children were locked on Natasha and Carolyn. No one was laughing now. The undivided attention of the crowd around them was focused on the drama that had transpired.

“This gave us the opportunity once again to remind them of why our team was living with them in their village. We told them again why we were taking the time to learn their language and culture. We reminded them that it is because we have Good News from God the Creator—and from His Word, the Bible, to share with them,” Natasha writes.

God has lovingly provided a way for Elseng men and women and children to be saved from the hopelessness of their sin by trusting in Jesus. Pray that He will continue to open the hearts of Elseng people to hear His message in their own language and draw them to the hope and redemption offered in the Gospel.

There are more tribes who need to hear the Gospel and be rescued from deep hopelessness and despair. Their lives and villages need to be transformed by God’s grace.

Tags: Asia-Pacific, Elseng People Mission News, Prayer,
POSTED ON Feb 18, 2013 by Cathy Drobnick