Excerpt from draft of "Apostle to the Pygmies – The Doctor Jerry Galloway Story”
Towards the end of the month, someone knocked on my door as though they were going to break in down. Turns out it was Luba and Bola. Bola had cut his knee with a machete and was losing a lot of blood. I rushed him to the operating room. Bola had cut two arteries and the ligaments and bones of the knee joint. I quickly sewed up the wounds and hospitalized Bola.
The week before, I had done blood tests on the members of the youth group. When I rechecked Bola’s blood count I found that Bola had lost twenty five percent of his blood. The prayer group came to intercede for him. I chose to take Bola’s place working in the fields, as this was the planting season, and the fields needed to be planted in the next two weeks.
A few nights later, one of Luba’s aunts died in the village of Liamba. She had been sick for several weeks, but she refused to come to the hospital. On Sunday, I asked the prayer group if they would like to go the village and pray for Luba’s aunt’s family. It was time to begin to share the group’s gift of prayer with the village people. They agreed and selected songs and gospel readings, taking along candles and lanterns. A group of fifty people were present, and the family was grateful and amazed at this expression of Christianity by the boys.
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