{"id":2334,"date":"2011-01-31T16:06:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2011-02-02T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T18:39:38","slug":"2334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/2011\/01\/31\/2334\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave Them Alone!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Melissa Williamson and the Adoptive Parents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The old adage ‘Leave them alone. They are happy like they ar<\/em>e’ takes on\u00a0 life and death meaning when missionary Melissa Williamson looks down at the kicking breathing newborn.\u00a0 Her fate: being born second, which in Nagi land, is a death sentence.<\/p>\n

The newborn’s pathetic cry grows weaker as no one holds her.\u00a0 No one reaches down to bring her to the life giving sustenance of her mother’s milk.<\/p>\n

Melissa asks the baby’s mother to consider saving the other twin. Melissa explains that the 2nd twin was just as worthy of living, but her reasoning seems to\u00a0 fall on deaf ears.\u00a0 Long established tribal traditions and fear will dictate what the young mother will do with her second born twin.<\/p>\n

Melissa quietly leaves the birthing hut where one baby is cuddled and the other lies alone upon a mat. This missionary team needs God’s wisdom. What can they do? What should they do?\u00a0 How can the missionaries among the Nagi change the family’s mind?\u00a0 A quick email is sent to ask for prayer. Only a miracle can save this newborn twin.<\/p>\n

But a miracle does happen. The birth family agrees that the child can live if someone would take her. Soon another family steps up to take the 2nd twin and raise her as their own. \u00a0The missionary team \u00a0provides formula for the adoptive family and shows them how to prepare the bottles for feeding.<\/p>\n

Never in Nagi traditions has this happened. The prayers of God’s people have made a difference.\u00a0 Perhaps this example will help the people understand God’s grace when the missionaries are able to present God’s story in the Nagi language.<\/p>\n

To leave the hundreds of thousands of tribal people\u00a0 alone means eternal death, and the life they have, now, is not happy, but fraught with fears and taboos, with quarreling and feuds. The innocent die, and those who live, live in fear.<\/p>\n

Nagi people need to hear and understand the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They need the redemptive work of God’s Spirit and a new born heart and mind that desires the sincere milk of the Word of God. Please pray this day comes quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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