Mission Moroto Stories: Baby 2×4

Mission Moroto Stories: Baby 2×4
When Inowa was 3-years-old, her uncle inexplicably beat Inowa’s mother nearly to death and broke her hip. She couldn’t get to the hospital and so the break became very infected. Rebekah was in her village one day bringing food to a different family that had just buried a relative and stumbled upon Inowa’s mother and learned of her situation. Rebekah rushed Inowa’s mom to the hospital and they were able to get the infection under control but she lost all ability to walk. A couple of weeks later a neighbor brought Inowa to Rebekah and begged her to take her because the mom could no longer care for her. And, of course, Rebekah took Inowa in. Months later, Inowa was playing with our hand pump at the water well and crushed her finger and needed stitches badly and IV antibiotics. Even though tribal warfare was raging all around and the roads were dangerous and the hour was late, Rebekah and Papa Matthew raced Inowa to the hospital and got her treatment. As they were racing back home in the dark they came around a corner and the headlights flashed upon a giant Rock Python stretching across the entire road. The snake was as big around as Papa Matthew’s bicep and the length of the road’s width. As Papa Matthew screamed SNAKE!!!, Rebekah gunned the van and we felt the bump bump and raced on home. When Inowa recovered, she made a constant habit of wrapping up an object and carrying it on her back the way Karamojong women carry babies. We would tease her because somedays it was a baby flip flop on her back and some days it was a baby 2×4 board and somedays it was a baby brick. When some of Rubi’s friends heard about the baby 2×4 they packaged up a baby doll and sent it with Matt & Lisa to the mission. And now Inowa is all healed and she has a baby doll on her back and a ready smile and hug for everyone. ❤ www.missionmoroto.org