Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Peace Child 3

The next section of Peace Child that I read was very interesting. First, many of the different tribes in this region keep fighting one another and take other people captive/continue with head hunting. One day the members of one of these tribes sees a boat coming down a nearby river. They were amazed by this (they hadn't seen a big boat before) and saw that there were white people on the boat (which they had also not seen before). They were very scared and tried to come up with a plan of what to do. Eventually they begin to trade with these people for food and weapons that they had never seen before. Meanwhile, there is a  Christian missionary college in Canada, and a missions team is trying to figure out how to take a group of people down to this area to tell these tribes the Gospel. The book briefly goes into detail about the different missionaries that went down there, and I hope it will continue with their journey throughout the rest of the book. A text-to-text connection that I could make with this book would be to Through the Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot. Both books are about unreached tribes, where missionaries go to share the Gospel with the people there. I wonder if the books will have the same sort of ending, or if one will be different than the other.

2 comments:

  1. I found your description of the book interesting! The book is about the society of which people live which is interesting.Great work!

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  2. I understood where you were coming from when you were talking about the book, because I have read about something like it before in my history book. Also this was very detailed which is good

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