{"id":175,"date":"2010-03-29T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T05:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/2010\/03\/29\/perfecto-and-sinanduming\/"},"modified":"2010-04-04T19:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:19:36","slug":"perfecto-and-sinanduming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/2010\/03\/29\/perfecto-and-sinanduming\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfecto and Sinanduming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me introduce you to the oldest couple in our village.  We haven\u2019t yet determined the exact age of Perfecto or his wife, Sinanduming, but we know they\u2019re at least 70 years old, based on the stories he tells us of the Americans who were in the area during WW2 when he was young.  <\/p>\n

\"IMG_3408\"<\/a> I first remember Perfecto when we made our initial survey trip into the village.  As we passed by his house, he insisted that we join him and his friends for some food and coffee.  It hasn\u2019t changed, as it\u2019s not often we can pass by without Perfecto inviting us to join him for coffee.  <\/p>\n

Since then, Perfecto has continued to help us in any way he can.  The house we rented while building Christina\u2019s house is located next door to Perfecto\u2019s house.  He was often at the door offering food, etc to us, or checking up on us to make sure we were ok.  He even allowed us to use his outhouse!  <\/p>\n

When I was in the process of figuring out where all our lumber was, we had a meeting with the people to discuss it with them.  Perfecto was very bold as he voiced his opinion that they all needed to do whatever they could to help us and not cause problems for us, as we were there to help them.  (This is unusual for them to speak out like this with us around.)<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3421\"<\/a> Sinanduming is the classic elderly tribal lady in my mind.  Don\u2019t let her elderly look fool you though.  This woman could work circles around any of us any day.  I\u2019ve seen her carry 50 kilo sacks of rice and 5 gallon buckets of water on her head like it was a breeze.  Not only that, but she\u2019ll do it while climbing a muddy slope (I can\u2019t even climb it on my own without being on my hands and knees!) with a homemade cigar gently clenched between her teeth.  <\/p>\n

Perfecto knows Tagalog and even a bit of English, which he tries very hard to use with us.  Sinanduming on the other hand only knows Ga\u2019dang and Ilocano.  That doesn\u2019t stop her from trying to communicate though.  The other day she stopped me on the trail to ask a question.  I smiled and nodded as she talked, not really knowing what I may be getting myself into.  It turned out ok, as later she showed up with peanuts.  She had heard we wanted to buy some, and had been trying to tell me that she had some to sell.  <\/p>\n

Please pray for Perfecto and Sinanduming.  We are hoping they will be able to live long enough to hear the Gospel message.  It has been a very slow process for us to get set up in the tribe and then learn the Ga\u2019dang language, but it is for people like them that we see the importance of communicating God\u2019s Word to them in their heart language.  It would be so exciting to see them rejoicing and praising their Creator one day, especially after living in spiritual darkness for so long.<\/p>\n

by Chuck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me introduce you to the oldest couple in our village.  We haven\u2019t yet determined the exact age of Perfecto or his wife, Sinanduming, but we know they\u2019re at least 70 years old, based on the stories he tells us of the Americans who were in the area during WW2 when he was young.  I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1767,4],"tags":[11621],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-gadang-people","category-ministry","tag-gadang-people","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}