Christian And Missionary Alliance

The nightmares ceased when Byong Chon finally threw in the fried chicken apron. He won the footrace with the phantom gang member who stalked him nightly in his dreams to the brink of a plunging cliff. He silenced the memories of voices screaming, "Go back to Korea," the fists thudding against the bulletproof plexiglass that was his window on South-Central Los Angeles. He no longer divided customers into simple categories of friend or foe.

AND IT CAME TO PASS in the spring of 1985 that Tom Feldpausch went forth into the jungles of Papua New Guinea, taking with him his wife, Becky, and their two boys, Aaron and Isaac. Armed with only a Bible and three phrases in the local dialect, the young missionary couple settled in the tiny village of Yaru, deep inside a trackless mangrove swamp on a tributary of the sluggish Sepik River.