AN ADVENTURE TO SURVEY
June 15, 2009
by Brian Johnson
There seemed to be an endless supply of cobras and leeches on the trail, but missionary Grant Bayfield kept going.
He was hiking in to a tribal village in the Philippines with four other NTM missionaries, some guides and a local chief called a datu. The missionaries were surveying the area to see if it is a possible location to begin ministry.
Grant reached over and pulled off a leech that managed to crawl onto his teammate's face. He thought it was a goatee until it moved.
There were also plenty of poisonous cobras, but they usually slithered away as the team approached.
After the guide grabbed Grant's jackknife and threw it at a passing cobra, he told Grant about a different kind of snake., "My guide told me there's one snake that actually chases you until it bites you, and then takes off," Grant wrote. "He said he used to not take trails, just cut through the jungle, but ran into a snake like that, and barely managed to kill it first. So now he takes the trail."
After long hours of hiking, the group finally arrived in the village they were looking for. The missionaries found that the village of 80 families is very traditional and many don't speak the trade language. There are also no churches or missions active in their area.
Pray for Grant and the other NTM missionaries who are looking to possibly locate in this area and teach the Gospel.
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