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JESUS LED ME ALL THE WAY: 40 YEARS IN THE JUNGLES OF PAPUA, INDONESIA
A missionary to the Indonesian province of Papua, Stringer lived her love for Christ and His children to the exclusion of personal gain and modern convenience. Through detailed memory, anecdotes and excerpts from her journals, she vividly renders the array of unforgettable characters she lived, worked and praised with for forty years.
Once, a headhunter, Bidaw, had one jungle fruit he wanted to divide…He peeled it with a dirty axe and divided it the simplest way he knew – he bit it in half. I got the half that came out of his mouth. On another occasion, a young fellow…reported that his friend had brushed his teeth for the first time in his life with my toothbrush, three days previously…Loving lost people can mean deliberately exposing ourselves to such things.
This passage embodies the heart of Jesus Led Me All the Way, as well as the casual eloquence of Margaret Stringer’s prose. Living out love is an evocative, soul-stirring phrase, containing nothing of the worldly, starry-eyed, stomach-a-flutter ethereal. Rather, the concept seems very like the hammering out of salvation on God’s own glowing forge.
In February 1983, my friend Gail Vinje, Citak Christians Sahu and Yakub Fiak, and I were almost killed by some very primitive people in the Brazza River area…But just a few days after we were evacuated from the area, Sahu said to me, “Just because they were about to kill us doesn’t mean that we can just forget them. We must go back and tell them God’s Word.”
To witness such zeal and faith must surely be a moving experience for any Christian, and certainly much more so to one who works in distant and primitive lands. Jesus Led Me All the Way is simply one of the most engaging and immersive recollections of missionary life ever written.
Once, a headhunter, Bidaw, had one jungle fruit he wanted to divide…He peeled it with a dirty axe and divided it the simplest way he knew – he bit it in half. I got the half that came out of his mouth. On another occasion, a young fellow…reported that his friend had brushed his teeth for the first time in his life with my toothbrush, three days previously…Loving lost people can mean deliberately exposing ourselves to such things.
This passage embodies the heart of Jesus Led Me All the Way, as well as the casual eloquence of Margaret Stringer’s prose. Living out love is an evocative, soul-stirring phrase, containing nothing of the worldly, starry-eyed, stomach-a-flutter ethereal. Rather, the concept seems very like the hammering out of salvation on God’s own glowing forge.
In February 1983, my friend Gail Vinje, Citak Christians Sahu and Yakub Fiak, and I were almost killed by some very primitive people in the Brazza River area…But just a few days after we were evacuated from the area, Sahu said to me, “Just because they were about to kill us doesn’t mean that we can just forget them. We must go back and tell them God’s Word.”
To witness such zeal and faith must surely be a moving experience for any Christian, and certainly much more so to one who works in distant and primitive lands. Jesus Led Me All the Way is simply one of the most engaging and immersive recollections of missionary life ever written.
224 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 1, 2014
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March 18, 2018
What a blessing to spend a few hours inside the heart and mind of a lady who loved God so dearly. An inspiration for us all that God can use whomever he wants for whatever he pleases.
September 15, 2022
Margaret's story of working 40 years in the jungles of Indonesia among former headhunters and cannibals is fascinating. God used her to translate the New Testament into the Citak language. What a joy to see God open eyes to His truth.
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