Bruchko : The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old Ameican, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe

by Olson, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9781591859932
• ISBN10: 159185993X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-08
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

Click Here For Sample ChapterWhat 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 Olsonrs"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

Foreword: The Beginning of a Miracle	xi
Robert Walker
Prologue: Nine Months in Captivity	xv
Robert Walker
Home to the Jungle	1	(8)
Who Is My God?	9	(7)
Conflict	16	(9)
A Missionary?	25	(7)
First Meeting With Indians	32	(9)
Last-Minute Help	41	(5)
Communists	46	(7)
Almost Killed	53	(10)
Bribery	63	(6)
A Terrifying Reception	69	(9)
In and Out of Civilization	78	(6)
An Impatient Wait	84	(6)
Discouragement	90	(7)
A Pact Brother	97	(6)
Mistaken for a Cannibal	103	(9)
Using the Witch Doctor	112	(8)
Jesus, the Motilone	120	(9)
The Night of the Tiger	129	(7)
Everyday Miracles	136	(8)
Like David and Jonathan	144	(8)
Gloria	152	(8)
Almost Wiped Out	160	(6)
The Whirlpool	166	(7)
Beyond the Horizon	173	(13)
Epilogue	186
Janice G. Franzen