Peace Child

“On every continent, in every nation, God is at work in and through the lives of believers. From the streets of Amsterdam to remote Pacific islands to the jungles of Ecuador and beyond, each international adventure that emerges is a dramatic episode that could be directed only by the hand of God. Imagine sharing the gospel with a tribe of cannibals who admire Judas’s betrayal more than Jesus’ sacrifice. Not only murder, but treacherous murder, had been the ideal of the headhunting Sawi people of New Guinea for generations when missionaries Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to live among them. As they searched for the key that would open the gospel to the Sawis, God moved in a remarkable way, revealing His true Peace Child, a figure the Sawis knew vaguely from their own mythology. To the Hebrews He was the Lamb of God, to the Greeks, the Logos. But to the Sawi He was the “Tarop Tim Kodon, the Perfect Peace Child–the ideal fulfillment of their own redemptive analogy! A deeply moving, unforgettable adventure!