Jason and Angie Bechtel Bringing Hope to Unreached People Groups 
Everyone wants to be healthy. Not everyone wants to be stabbed by their spouse with a needle, just for practice.
This week in our missionary training, we are enjoying a unit on "health and wellness". The premis is that if we as missionaries can’t stay healthy, we have to leave our ministry, and not only are we suffering physically, but the tribal people we were ministering to ultimately suffer the most—they won’t get to hear "God’s talk".
So we are learning about preventative measures that we can take to keep us pressing on towards the goal of seeing every tribe and tongue and nation before the throne of God.
This afternoon, we got a little hands on experience. We started out with taking each other’s blood pressure, and then looking at each other’s eardrums with one of those thing-a-ma-bobs doctors use. Then we got intimate with one other. How much do you trust your spouse? Enough to be their first victim as they learn how to use a needle?
Shot for shot, it all worked out in the end. I got to give Angie a poke in the back of her arm, and she returned the favour. Now we can say we know a little about needle-work.
We had thought we might get to learn how to do stitches. Maybe I whinned too much about the little needle, or maybe it was never part of the plan, but either way, no stitches were exchanged.
