5 out of 5 Stars!
Review by Ronald P. Manus "Ramon"
I was blown away by this book for two reasons. First I have known the
author for over 40 years and can't get over being in awe of what she and
her colleagues have accomplished--but most of all by the way she takes
us unto the very lives and thinking of individual Amueshas. The reader
begins to get to know individual Amueshas and is drawn into feeling at
home with their thinking and way of life.
The book starts out as the very well written personal adventures
of Martha Duff and Mary Ruth Wise --missionaries who left home and North
American culture, in 1953, to take on the way of life and culture of
what was then an isolated people in the foothill jungles of central
Peru. The author, Martha Duff Tripp, not only lived the life of the Amueshas but she and Mary Ruth teamed up
with Amuesha helpers to translate the New Testament into the Amuesha
language. Along the way, living in community with Amuesha leaders, they
encouraged a tribal educational system that came to deploy a vast web of
Amuesha led schools and school administrators, as well as teams of
Amuesha health, community development and church leaders and workers for
15,000 Amueshas living in hundreds of scattered villages.
This was all done in a context of the coming together of a
respect for an Amuesha world view--as impacted by the power and truth
of God's Word as found in the Bible. Their aim was to help the Amuesha
people to know and serve the powerful, all loving, God of the Bible--but also to help them be able to compete and sometimes win in the
often hostel context of Peruvian national life.
This book helps us to understand how leaders of the Amuesha
churches have not been push-overs for either spiritual enemies within
their own Amuesha society or outside influences. We find an intimate
introduction to brothers and sisters who have have gotten a good idea of
where they stand as Amueshas, Christians and Peruvian citizens.
Five stars for the book, the author and the Amueshas who's walk with God may open our eyes to some things we may have missed.
Published by Harvest Day Books
Available at ReadingUp.com
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