The Amazon burden

I am getting a great burden for the indigenous people in the Amazon jungle outside of Cusco. There are over 60,000 unreached and unengaged tribal people living deep in the Amazon jungle of Peru. This means that they have no access to the gospel, they have never heard of Jesus, they have never met a Christian, they have no written language to read about Jesus and generations of them will live and die without ever hearing of their only hope of salvation. There are still tribes in the jungles of Peru that have not been found. 

Ticuna boys

One example of the strange beliefs of the tribal people in the jungles of Peru is what Wycliffe Bible translators found from the Ticuna Indians.

The Wycliffe publication, Translation, issue of September-October 1974, carried an account of the translation of the difficult language of the Ticuna Indians who live along the Amazon on both sides of the Peru-Brazil border. The Ticunas believe in two types of demons. Yeureu demons wear the clothes of a policeman, have the head of a dog and kill anyone who sees them. Ngozo demons are tall, kiss whoever sees them, live in distant forests, obey orders of witch doctors and sometimes can be heard congregating in the clouds. These particular demons do not enter people, nor do they influence them other than taking their thoughts or shooting invisible arrows at them. Another witch doctor can heal their attacks by sucking to remove the darts.

I'm getting a great burden to take the gospel to those that have not heard it, deep in the Amazon.  Praying for a contact to take us deep into the jungle at some point in the future.  

Divine Sovereignty: The Fuel of Death-Defying Missions

This is one of the best sermons I have ever heard preached.  It is worth an hour of your life.

Radical Dedication

I preached this sermon today during chapel at the Spanish Language Institute.  The text is Romans 12:1-2

I appeal to you therefore, brothers,by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.² Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

But happy indeed, is that man who can venture all for Christ in faith and love. He may lose all that the world calls great and good; but he shall receive, through the merits of the Redeemer--an unfading crown of glory!