Toronto School of Ministry visit Part 4

Saturday was another long day as we were ministering at a conference in an area near Lima Airport. This was a real stretch for me as I had to translate 3 sermons and 1 hour of prophetic presbertry. Daniel Munoz,(centre left) the pastor of Filadelphia and some of the young adults in their church

Safe to say that some of the messages were not translated that well!Again the church was really blessed and it felt like a good job done well. We got home about 6 o clock and the boys went straight into the shower and would be an early night for all intended. However as happens too often here in Peru, the course of a day can dramatically change.

Mark translating the prophetic presbertry for the pastoral family.

Joel left the shower and fell over his feet, and fell headlong into the bed leg. Blood began to pour out of his mouth and we couldn’t see his teeth. Becky, (who is amazing by the way), a member of the team, and a doctor in her spare time, did her best to examine a very distressed 2 year old. She felt we should go to a dentist, for many reasons, firstly the bleeding was quite bad, his teeth were lodged in his lip, and also it appeared he had bitten through this lip and there was a big hole in his chin. Apologies if you are squeamish.Anyway the dentist around the corner opened up for us and a screaming Joel was held down by me as he had anesthetic injected into his lips so his teeth could be removed from his lip. We were told after that we would need to go to a doctor as the dentist couldn’t put external stitches in. When we arrived we were told that shallow stitches were 400 soles each, and deep ones 1000 soles, so when Joel was going to need 3 to 4, at least we were looking up to 1000 pounds or 4000 soles. We don’t have that type of money, we’re poor missionaries!!!

The wonderful Becky, thanks for your help

Anyway the specialist wasn’t available he was a Peruvian 30 minutes away, so we knew we were potentially in for a very long night. Joel was pretty much screaming the place down and no one liked this, not surprisingly, and eventually the pediatrician took the plunge and had a look. When he looked he said he saw no need for any stitching and we could go home. God had healed him miraculously, as Anna and are untrained eyes could see and Becky’s trained eye also confirmed. You may see the small scar which is still healing on Joel's chin.

Joel is still healing today, but he has had no need for any stitches. All we needed was some preventative medicine, the good old banana medicine, amoxicillin!!