Pig Attack and Medivac!

Ainus (eye-aye-noose) Kogoya was near the village when a wild jungle pig attacked him. 

 

Drawn to female domesticated pigs near the village, the boar aggressively approached. Upon encountering Ainus, it sprung. 

 

Ainus suffered 7 deep wounds, All will require stitches. There is a 3-inch slice between his big toe and second toe and bone is exposed. The pig also stuck his tusk into Ainus' arm (we are trying to make sure he gets a tetanus shot in Merauke). The pig bit into the back of Ainus' head. Lots of blood was lost. It puddled in our living room floor as we treated him. It soaked through all of his bandages quickly. 

 

Others hunted down and killed the pig with much malice.

 

Thanks to Mission Aviation Fellowship and an internet connection via satellite dish. We arranged medivac by float-plane within 4 hours for pick-up here in Danowage (which the pilot calls "about the farthest place from anywhere!") to the coastal hospital in Merauke. Mission Aviation literally saves lives!

 

Ainus insisted that some pig meat be taken along with him to Merauke so he could "eat the pig that ate him."

 

Pray for him as he recovers. Sometimes quality medical care is hard to find in Papua.

A few weeks in Sentani

We spent a few weeks in Sentani (April, 2013). We took the kids out to eat Pizza (Alethea has quite the fashion sense).

Noah playing baseball with a rock and a singkong root.

 Our backyard.

Teresa and Alethea

Our front yard and driveway (we rent the mission house for when we are in town). We are on the right and the Snider family lives straight ahead.

Baby Perpetua is getting big

Lazy afternoon in Danowage

Behind our house and at the location of the school being built.

Pics from Rockport Baptist

We spent 3 weeks back in the US in August and here are some pics from one Sunday at Rockport Baptist Church in Arnold, Missouri. Thanks Billy Jackson for taking our family pics (even though the sun was shiny and the kids sort of shy....family pics is sometimes a trial).

From last year - Alethea's pre-school

Last year we went to Bandung, West Java, for a few months to wait for baby Perpetua to arrive.

While there, we enrolled Alethea in a special pre-school.

Some birthday pics

Since we haven't updated this blogsite very well due to busyness, here are some birthday pics from this year all gathered together.