On to the Sanumas: S

Download or read book On to the Sanumas: S written by Thomas J. Sorkness and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On to the Sanumás is a firsthand account of Don and Barb Borgman’s forty-year effort and achievement to place the word of God into the hands of the Sanumás, a tribe of the Yanomami people of Brazil. The edited compilation of personal letters, journal entries, and newsletters are a detailed record of their many years with the tribe and the friendships they established among them. It is a story filled with toil, adversity, trials, and even tragedy, yet also one of joy and evidence of God’s faithfulness and love. The book provides great insight into the Sanumá people and their way of life as many experienced change from animism and shamanism to faith in Jesus Christ. It is also a historical record of the first contact expeditions to the Yanomami people by missionaries of Unevangelized Fields Mission in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These are all recorded by Borgman. This is an important work in that it chronicles not only the lifework of this missionary couple and family, but also another chapter of the ongoing expansion of God’s kingdom to the ends of the earth. It is a valuable read for both academics and laypersons in the church.