A loud "hello" awoke missionaries Tim and Janet Roberts at 4:30 a.m. Sunday. A second, more urgent call roused them from their bed.
The young man outside was scared and unsure as to what to do next if the missionaries weren't home.
He needed to get medical help for his wife. She had been in labor with the couple's first child since the middle of the day before. Her blood pressure was high and the nurse was worried.
Tim had worked especially hard to prepare that morning's message for the believers, but it wouldn't be delivered. There was another delivery that was more pressing at the moment. Tim and his wife, Janet, couldn't find the baby's heartbeat and the mother was not in good shape.
Tim had to get the woman to a town that had a larger clinic. He drove as quickly as he dared, trying to avoid the rocks and boulders, to get her to the doctor before she died.
But there was no doctor at the clinic. With the help of two nurses a little girl was born, despite the umbilical cord being wrapped around her neck.
"It was touch-and-go for awhile trying to get her to take her first breath, but she did," wrote Tim.
Meanwhile, Tim's wife, Janet, was facing her own crisis. While gathered for worship with a house full of Tarahumaras, Nacho's wife, Juana, went into labor. No nurse was available. They waited for Tim's return.
When Tim returned home he took Nacho and Juana to the clinic. She had been in active labor but all of a sudden it stopped. Then just before midnight another baby girl was born -- yet again with the cord tightly around the neck. Juana hemorrhaged a lot but was doing better by morning.
After the ordeal Tim was thanking and praising God as he reflected on Galatians 6:9: "And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart."
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