It was only two days after my overnight stay at
the cattle camp, and we were back into every day life. The team had left and we
had started back our language classes. It was a routine day, when all of a
sudden our teacher got a phone call. I
was only able to hear a few words of ½ a conversation but I knew something was
wrong. I heard the words tall grass,
buffalo, tree, car, and man. I thought
to myself, wow, my language is slipping this doesn’t make any sense. Finally our teacher connected the dots. One
of the men we had just met was taking his cows out to find grass when out of
nowhere a Cape Buffalo appeared. It charged directly at him and the 2000 lb. animal
flung him sideways into a tree. The
animal’s momentum carried him past the man but he quickly turned around to
attack one more time. The man was able
to crawl into some tall grass and hide until the buffalo finally left. One of our teammates was needed to go pick
the man up in our vehicle and take him to the closest hospital. It was nothing short of a miracle that the
man not only survived, but also suffered no major wounds. He was discharged
from the hospital a few days later. As
we begin to ask questions we found at that, while we slept right beside this
man two nights earlier, we had actually met him about a week ago. He was one of
several men who had decided recently to be a follower of Jesus and be baptized.
Pray that he will use his miraculous story of survival as a testimony to the
power of His savior.
Visiting our teacher Ngole's home
The man featured in this story is one of these four men whom we had the privilege of watching be baptized.
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