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Bruchko » (Revised)

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Authors: Bruce Olson
ISBN-13: 9781591859932, ISBN-10: 159185993X
Format: Other Format
Publisher: Strang Communications Company
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: Revised

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Author Biography: Bruce Olson

Book Synopsis

What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered by trial and error has revolutionized then world of missions.

Bruchko, which has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide, has been called “more fantastic and harrowing than anything Hollywood could concoct.” Living with the Motilone Indians since 1961, Olson has won the friendship of four presidents of Colombia and has made appearances before the United Nations because of his efforts. Bruchko includes the story of his 1988 kidnapping by communist guerrillas and the nine months of captivity that followed. This revised version of Olson’s story will amaze you and remind you that simple faith in Christ can make anything possible. “[Bruchko is] an all-time missionary classic. Bruce Olson is a modern missionary hero who has modeled for us in our time the reaching of the unreached tribes.” —Loren Cunningham Co-founder, Youth With A Mission

Table of Contents

Foreword5
Prologue9
1Home to the Jungle15
2Who Is My God?22
3Conflict29
4A Missionary?38
5First Meeting With Indians45
6Last-Minute Help54
7Communists59
8Almost Killed66
9Bribery75
10A Terrifying Reception81
11In and Out of Civilization90
12An Impatient Wait96
13Discouragement102
14A Pact Brother109
15Mistaken for a Cannibal115
16Using the Witch Doctor124
17Jesus, the Motilone132
18The Night of the Tiger140
19Everyday Miracles147
20Like David and Jonathan155
21Gloria163
22Almost Wiped Out171
23The Whirlpool177
24Beyond the Horizon183
Epilogue196
Notes203

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