Praise and Prayer Request.

Note: I did not actually observe the following event. Other people on my team did. A lot of my work while in Sri Lanka was at this house, and I've spent time playing with this boy.

This afternoon, a young boy (ten years old maybe) was playing around his family's house. Their house is currently still a work in progress, so we usually have three or four people from our team helping them. Being a boy, he had done something that interfered with the work, and his father was chasing him to stop him and perhaps to punish him. The boy tripped over two cement blocks that were next to a concrete drainage ditch. He fell towards the ditch and split his head open on the edge of the opening. He then fell into the ditch, which is basically full of sewage. His parents rushed him off to the hospital and he was back at home with a large bandage later this afternoon. Other than the bandage, he seems to be ok.

Based on the nature of the accident, I'm amazed that he's already back at home and back to life as usual. I praise God that he is walking. Please pray for his recovery. Pray that there won't be any complications like infections from falling into the sewage with a fresh wound.