{"id":72,"date":"2010-09-27T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-09-27T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:31:13","slug":"from-a-guanano-boy-into-a-man-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/barry-spor\/2010\/09\/27\/from-a-guanano-boy-into-a-man-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Guanano Boy into a Man of God"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nilsa,
Nilsa, baby Glenda and Mario and the MK school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 2 Guanano pre-teen boys stepped off the transport plane that had brought them hours across the dense green \u00a0jungle east to the steamy city. \u00a0Mario and Isa\u00edas followed the nun in her white outfit to the waiting vehicle and began their adventure away from their jungle home. They were taken to an agricultural boarding school where they learned to grow and cultivate different cash crops the way white people do it. \u00a0They spent four years there and then were sent back to their village to, hopefully, put to use what they had learned. \u00a0This experience put them out of the tribal influence at the time of their development for forming cultural norms and beliefs. They adapted quickly back into the ways of the Guanano and learned what they were supposed to learn. \u00a0But God only knows how He was preparing them for the future Guanano church.<\/p>\n

Mario is now almost 30 years old. He has been helping translate selected Old Testament scriptures that go along with the Evangelistic Bible teaching. \u00a0He has also been team-teaching unbelievers the Phase 1 lessons along with two of his brothers. \u00a0It has been a tough road to follow as they have no church model other than ourselves and the church in the book of Acts.<\/p>\n

Recently the Lord took Mario and his young wife, Nilsa, through a new situation. \u00a0While waiting the birth of their second child Nilsa came down with malaria. \u00a0She may have had other problems, since the baby was really low, but being 16 years old she went ahead with her active life style. She ended up having malaria 3 times and then got it again when the baby was a few days old. \u00a0So she really had a time of it. \u00a0Well, all this took its toll and the baby came 2 months early. \u00a0Being a premie, she had trouble with breathing and then nursing, so they took her to the hospital. \u00a0There they put her in an incubator and eventually the doctor decided to send the little one to the big city for tests. \u00a0This was not a happy thought for either of the parents. \u00a0That meant it was more serious than they thought, and they would have to be away from each other and their 2 year old son, Daniel. When the hospital\u2019s social assistance person found out Nilsa was under age she said Mario had to go, too. \u00a0He was holding down 2 jobs; the one co-translating along with the missionary would be secure, but the other one might be lost. On top of these heavy concerns was the fact that Nilsa\u2019s parents, indians from the same jungle area as our Guanano friends, were putting pressure on the young couple to chant and do all the correct Indian rituals for the newborn to fend off the evil spirits. \u00a0But Mario said firmly that they were going to pray and trust God for the baby\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

We are happy to say that the baby is 3 months old now and the hardest part of the ordeal seems to be over. \u00a0The last week of their stay in the city they were able to go out to visit the missionaries at the MK school. \u00a0This was a special treat to Mario, since, as he said, he had been hearing about this school for almost 20 years and he never dreamed he would ever get to visit. \u00a0After being couped up in the city in a small non-private room with many other Indian patients for 3 months they were able to fish (they loved that) and had a lot of room and privacy in a guest apartment near the jungle. \u00a0One bad thing that resulted is that Mario has to re-pay his employer for 1 month\u2019s owed work that he lost due to getting baby Glenda medical treatment. But he does still have the job and the lesson he learned, he said, was that even when we go through hard times, God doesn’t leave us. \u00a0He is there to help us through them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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