Ouch!

If you are looking for the "Virtual Journey" to visit some Agta villages, just scroll down the page after this post.

Well, it has been a painful week here in the Hagen home. First, Ben found a heavy steel ladder (for riding the motorcycle into the bed of the truck), lifted it, then promptly dropped it on his toe. We are still waiting to see if he will lose the nail or not. We tried to convince him that purple toes look cool... Poor kid - it hurt pretty bad.

The other morning Mikayla woke up with a swollen eye. We think it is a sty with the head under the lid - too painful to check. There is not redness on the eye itself or drainage so we don't think it is pink eye. We keep teasing her about looking at us funny, but it is quite painful and we feel for her.
In addition, Steve's knee has been really bothering him (he was not available for a pic - and I don't know that he would have humored me anyway...). At times it has been too painful to walk on, and he has been gimping around for several days now. We think it is a deep boil under the skin since it seems to be starting to come to a head. We are praying that it is nothing more serious.

Please pray with us that all these things clear up soon. Please pray as well for the training that will be held in our house this week (Thursday - Saturday). We will be training 20 men and women how to plant churches. Each of these already have a passion for church planting amongst the Agta; they just need training to know how to do it. Of all the things we have done here thus far, this training has the potential to have the biggest impact. We covet your prayers!