Saturday, October 17, 2015

Tribal Fight Anasina vs. Abinomo

During the middle of September, the church hosted a huge youth camp! It was to start on a Monday, but the Saturday before, a tribal fight started.  I will try to explain the fight in the pictures.

This is Saturday morning, when a huge group of warriors from Abinomo went to Anasina, demanding a compensation because a man in there village had died from natural causes, but they thought that someone from Anasina had practiced "poison tok" on them, causing them to die..



As they were all traipsing across our station, some Australians that came for the camp went running out and bought some bows and spears off of the warriors... here is Hadassah Crowe holding some!



So around 3:30 Sunday afternoon, a huge fight broke out... Tim and I were sitting in the living room, chatting with some visitors when we started hearing war cries! I looked out the kitchen window, only to see a huge line of warriors storming down the mountain, crossing the creek, and coming up onto the station. Tim went running outside along with some other people. I could see all the warriors in from and behind our house running towards the fight!  To make a long story short, Tim and Sam Crowe drove into the middle of the fight... Sam was driving, but Tim was riding on the back of the truck! Only by God's protecting hand was he not shot with any spears! They were calling out for them to stop fighting, and usually if a white man does this, they will stop fighting, but not this time... it went on for about 4 hours, Tim went to both sides, talking with the chiefs and trying to get them to stop, but to no avail. Finally at dark, the fighting stopped, and the warriors started the walk back home, singing a victory song the whole way.

The next day, Tim and some nationals went back up to Abinono, you can see in the pictures they are all still holding their spears and bows! And Tim was able to preach to them, and they promised not to fight until camp was finished.


Some more Abinomo guys.


There were about 500 of these warriors fighting in the fight on Sunday afternoon.


This is the walk back to the station from Abinomo... You can see a big river in the picture... that is the Yonki Dam river...



This is a view of the station from Abinomo... you can see the top of the white tents that were set up for youth camp.


Then after going to Abinomo, Tim went up to Anasina and preached to them as well. As you can see they are all still holding bow and arrows as well... There were only about 57 of these warriors in the fight, but they were able to hold off the 500 from the other side, Tim said it was amazing to watch! I just locked the doors of our hut, thank the Lord several Australians had come for the youth camp and we were all able to pray while the fight was going on!


Some more Anasina boys!




Thank you to everyone for all of your prayers!!! We have seen the Lord doing a great work, but the still haven't made a peace treaty yet, so please don't stop praying!!! We will try to post some more later!

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for the pictures! It does make it so much more vivid to actually see it. We will always be praying for you! So proud of you all and the work the Lord is using you in there!

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