Bagwido believers are showing a transformation through their growing knowledge and faith in Jesus Christ.
One believer, Vincent, was quick to praise God in the midst of an emergency. When he saw his 5-year-old daughter, Prisila, fall on an upright cooking knife, slicing through her chin and into the bottom of her mouth, he immediately thanked God.
"Look how Great Creator Being protected her," Vincent told missionary Mark Woodard. "That knife was only inches from her throat and then that would have been it."
While the medical aid post worker was being sought out, Mark and fellow missionaries cleaned the wound and tried to compress the bleeding. By nightfall, the bleeding wasn't stopping so a canoe was prepared to take the girl to the village hospital. The boat motor would not start and Vincent decided to rely on his faith in God to save his daughter.
"Enough of this. I am going back up to our house and we are just going to pray," Vincent told Mark. "Our Great Creator Being knows and we are just going to hang [onto] Him."
After returning to their home, Prisila stopped bleeding.
"It is so encouraging to watch the transformation in people's lives," Mark wrote. "[They are] moving from … lives driven by fear and manipulation of … ancestor spirits, to hanging [onto] God and His son, Jesus."
God is revealing Himself in incredible ways to the Bagwido people of Papua New Guinea. Pray that they will continually rely on Him and seek to know Him more. Also pray that Prisila will successfully heal from her injury.
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