Spiritual hunger
A traditionally dressed Korowai man comes up to me with an unexpected question, “Do you have cassette tapes for me with the gospel in Korowai?" It is an old friend from the Senip clan and the last Korowai man in Sinimburu still dressed traditionally. In 2009, we distributed the first Korowai audio recordings of the gospel via cassette tapes using dynamo cassette players. In our old house, I still find some cassette tapes and a few dynamo cassette players. In response to his request, I give him all the cassette tapes I can still find and one of the dynamo players. It is nice to know that these old materials can still be a blessing to him.
While visiting several Korowai villages, I also meet Habel Molonggatun, one of my Korowai translators. Last year I visited him because he was so sick.(MCC newsletter 13) He turned out to have TB. For six months he faithfully took his medicine and he went back to his village, Yaniruma.
I find Habel across the river, in a small house in the jungle, on his own family land. It takes me some effort to visit him, but it is nice to see that he is healthy again and doing well. So well in fact, that he is building a new tree house.
I have booklets Mark's Gospel in Korowa with me and audio Bible stories on memory cards for mobile phones. I sell these at cost and there is a lot of interest, especially for the memory cards. Mark's Gospel is only interesting to the few young men who can read.
I make several people happy with a Kulumi audio player, which also has all the bible stories on it. These audio players have a solar panel which makes them easy to charge.
