They were only 14 years old!

All of the Tsachi men in this 45-year-old picture are in native dress. The one on the left, Samuel, wears the short black-and-white-striped skirt (woven by his wife)...which nowadays no one  wears!  All have their hair properly cut and coiffed with annato into a bright red "cap".

Now look at the young man in the center.  If you read my last post, you saw a picture of him!  In fact, he's been in about every post I've written about our visits to Cóngoma.  In that photo, he's 14 years old...
                                            ..and in this one, taken a couple of weeks ago,  he's 59.                

On our last visit, Primitivo pulled that first photo from his pocket and asked if we knew who the people were...particularly the one in the middle!   As I wrote before, Primitivo was one of Dad's language helpers, starting very young.  When we remember the people God used to bring the Tsáchila His Word, this fine man must be included.  

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Here's another Tsachi that I remember from when she was 14 and about to be married.  She was such a pretty, willowy lass.  Carán (whose nickname {Pelá} meant "spider") is now 66, wiry and as skinny as a rail!  Every time we go, she asks about our next visit. 

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At 14, Tsachi youngsters are becoming adults.  But  Primitivo and Carán were even younger when they first  heard of their Savior, and I think this Bible passage appropriate for them:   

"But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed,  knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." 

 (II Timothy 3:14-15)

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Thank You, Father, for  Primitivo and Carán, along with all the other Tsachi believers, who will be joining us Heaven!