Jungle Sunrise - Softcover

Williams, Jonathan; Garrett, Desta

4.12

8 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982492987 ISBN 13: 9780982492987

Publisher: Nordskog Publishing, 2010

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A unique and captivating novel by a member of the Xtreme Team, who risk their lives and endure unthinkable physical deprivation while assisting native people in the most remote areas of the world. This novel has been written out of the rich background of that experience. The author has been there!

Unlocking the secret of how to begin life anew, the book’s central character moves from a depressing, directionless life to a rewarding and incomparable adventure, discovering the ultimate meaning in life through trials and tragedy. One warning: do not start reading until you have some time because you won’t put it down.

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About the Author:

Jonathan Williams served as a missionary with the International Mission Board’s Xtreme Team in the jungles of Peru for two years. It was there, lying under a mosquito net in a hut in the middle of the Amazon Jungle, that Williams began to write his first novel, Jungle Sunrise.

Living with a previously unreached indigenous tribe, the Amarakaeri, Williams experienced first-hand the beauty and danger of native life as he had the opportunity to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, hunt with bows and arrows, fish with spears, navigate the rivers, and encounter every aspect of the tribe’s culture. This breathtaking scene of the Amazon serves as the backdrop for Jungle Sunrise.

Williams writes and lives in North Texas with his beautiful wife, Jessica, where he pastors Body Life church and serves as the Campus Pastor for Trinity Christian Academy as he pursues a Masters of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His passion and desire is to inspire readers with creativity and truth.

Review:

Jungle Sunrise is a unique and captivating novel, written by a member of the Xtreme Team, an inimitable group of men and women who risk their lives and endure unthinkable physical deprivation while attempting to find and assist native people in the most remote areas of the world. Author Jonathan Williams has written this novel out of the rich background of that experience. He unlocks the secret of how to begin life anew, as the book’s central character moves from a depressing, directionless life to a rewarding and incomparable adventure. One warning: do not start reading until you have some time because you won’t put it down.
― Paige Patterson, President, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Jonathan Williams skillfully transports the reader between two worlds in a captivating and suspenseful book. Having traveled in this setting with young missionaries seeking to reach isolated jungle tribes, I can attest to the authenticity of experiences encountered in this rich yet challenging environment. It is evident the author has been there! A subtle Christian testimony is effectively woven into the novel through intriguing personalities as they discover the ultimate meaning in life through trials and tragedy.
― Jerry Rankin, President, International Mission Board, SBC

Jonathan Williams keeps readers on the edge of their seats in his first novel set in the Peruvian jungle. He draws from his personal experience working in Peru as a member of the Xtreme Team – a group of Baptist missionaries who face danger and deprivation to reach people in the most remote corners of the world. The story’s protagonist is Jonah Frost – an author who hits rock bottom. His linguist brother, Noah, receives an assignment to learn the language of a newly discovered Peruvian tribe and decides Jonah needs an adventure to learn to live again. The Frosts meet Memphis and Abigail Jones, a missionary couple. The four share a boat with a bitter anthropologist and a beautiful Spanish photographer for a long journey upriver. As Jonah meets danger, death, romance and renewal, he finally finds his redemption in the jungle. The author certainly has interesting stories to tell.
― Jeff Randleman

Jungle Sunrise was a surprisingly good book. I realize that is a rather cryptic statement. Allow me to explain. Christian fiction is not a genre that I get too excited about. I’ve had a hard time finding many authors who write on a level with some of my favorite secular authors. When I received this book, and found that it was not only Christian fiction, but missions fiction, I wasn’t really looking forward to reading it. But I was pleasantly surprised. In Jungle Sunrise, Jonathan Williams tells several stories, woven into one. He tells the story of a struggling author, Jonah Frost, and his brother Noah. Jonah is an unpublished writer who can’t seem to write anything, and has turned to alcohol in order to hide. Jonah finds purpose, and something else. Another story woven into this narrative is the tale of Memphis and Abigail Jones, missionaries to an indigenous native tribe in Peru, called the Amarakaeri. They have spent the past several years living with this tribe, and are transitioning to begin working with another tribe in the Amazon jungle. A third story is of Grace Cervantes, a photographer from Madrid. She finds something unexpected while in the jungle. And finally, there is the story of Basil Cosgrove, an atheist anthropologist who disagrees with the Jones’ for bringing Christianity to these tribal people groups, changing them forever. Jungle Sunrise tells the story of these unlikely friends, traveling together into the Amazon jungle in search of another reclusive tribe. What they find is far beyond what they ever expected. I really enjoyed Jungle Sunrise. If you enjoy something different every now and then in your reading, I suggest you give it a shot. You might be surprised, like I was.
― Lauren Hollon, Communications Intern, Waco, TX. Printed in the Baptist Standard

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