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Torches of Joy: International Adventures - Softcover

Book 5 of 18: International Adventures

Dekker, John

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Synopsis

In 1960 the twenty-five thousand Dani tribes people hidden away in the remote Toli Valley of Irian Jaya used only stone tools and had no written language. Then, in one generation, they took the always dangerous, sometimes fatal, leap from the Stone Age into the twentieth century.

At this critical time John and Helen Dekker gave themselves to the Dani, helping them discover the gospel of Jesus Christ and their destiny as helpers of other tribes. Today the seventy-nine churches of the Toli Valley, with thirteen thousand baptized believers, have sent out sixty-five couples to other tribes needing the gospel.

A chapter from a present-day Book of Acts, Torches of Joy is a model for cross-cultural mission strategy and one of the twentieth century's most striking chronicles of God's grace and power.

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About the Author

John Dekker and his wife, Helen, spent twenty-one years in Irian Jaya. Today they encourage and train Christians in the two-thirds worlds to reach unreached people groups within their own neighboring countries. John holds a master's degree in missiology as well as a doctorate.

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