Peace Child, Don Richardson
Peace Child, Don Richardson
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Peace Child
An Unforgettable Story of Primitive Jungle Treachery in the 20th Century

Author: Don Richardson

Narrator: Don Richardson

Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2008

Synopsis

In 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Here is their unforgettable story of living among these headhunters and cannibals who valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter. God gave Don and Carol the key to the Sawi hearts via a redemptive analogy from their own mythology. The "peace child" became the secret to unlocking a value system that existed through generations over centuries, possibly millenniums, of time. This analogy became a stepping-stone by which the gospel came into the Sawi culture and started both a spiritual and social revolution from within. With an epilogue updating how the gospel impacted the Sawi, this missionary classic will inspire a new generation of readers to hear this unforgettable story and the lessons it teaches us about communicating with Christ in a meaningful way to those around us.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalie

"At first I sat there confused. Then the realization broke through. They were acclaiming Judas as the hero of the story! Yes, Judas, the one whom I had portrayed as the satanically motivated enemy of truth and goodness....I saw now that the Sari were not only cruel, but honored cruelty. Their hig......more

Goodreads review by John

Most books about missionaries that I've read start with the missionary: his call, his preparation, his arrival among people with an unfamiliar culture and language, his painstaking efforts. In "Peace Child," as in "Lords of the Earth," Don Richardson starts with the people the missionary is trying to......more

Goodreads review by Yibbie

This is an absolutely absorbing story of a forgotten and dying people thrown a lifeline just before they were swept into the maelstrom of modernity. I think it is so gripping just because of the drastic contrast Richardson paints between the indigenous culture and the Gospel of Christ. First, he pa......more

Goodreads review by Gwen

Loved it. This book was hard to stomach, and I can stomach a lot. Of course you hear about cannibalism in the history books, but I’ve never read any history or biography that captured the rank horror of paganism like this one. Some friends of mine were missionaries to New Guinea in the 1990s, and it......more

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