My children and I absolutely loved reading this book! I had to skip certain parts when we read out loud, because it is very graphic and horrific in its description of the lifestyle and customs of the cannabalistic tribes who greatly esteemed treachery. God has indeed "set eternity in the hearts of men" and even in these truly savage, treacherous cultures, He has left "bread crumbs" in their traditions and customs to help them...
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This was an exciting memoir about a family who laid the groundwork for a group of people who had never heard of Jesus Christ. Contact with them was complicated by the fact that this group of people valued treachery and betrayal. It was very eye opening.
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Talk about living on the edge, Don Richardson, his newlywed wife Carol and seven-month old son Stephen step from the 20th century into a stone-age cannabilistic cultural with gruesome and horrific practices. This book reads like the true adventure it is, starting with the narration of life, death, betrayal, parties where the honored guests become the special of the day. Enter this family of three into the midst of suspicious...
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This book Peace Child portrays with such vividness what the mission field is, and is not. This book brings out bizarre cultural customs such, as headhunting cannibals who used their victims' skulls as pillow. In 1962 Richardson reaches three Sawi villages;one named Mauro. Richardson seems to be taunted by the wildness. As the "Peace of God" descended on him, the strange place became home. Don Richardson was the first...
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I have had the good fortune of reading this book (twice), seeing the film, and hearing Don Richardson in person tell this story, and have been thrilled by each vehicle of communication (though I think Richardson's personal telling probably the most vivid.) The Sawi of New Guinea were a people still living at a stone age level when Richardson and his family went to live with them in the early 1960s, and their bizarre cultural...
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