Brandon Duke "Bruchko"

My girlfriend gave me this book to read last semester and it is awesome. It is about a missionary named Bruce Olson who goes to a remote tribe and shares Christ with them. He has an amazing adventure doing it and almost gets killed a number of times.

Bruce does not do what is the stereotype of missionaries. He does not force american culture or an american Jesus on these people. He instead uses their culture to communicate Jesus and heath issues to them. One of the coolest parts is when he gets out a microscope to show the witch doctor the "evil spirits" that are causing pink eye. Then he gives him the "potion" or medicine that will make them stop dancing.

He does not try to alter their view to one that calls the things germs but instead uses their culture to cure the sickness. He does the same thing with Jesus he uses their stories and culture to show them that Jesus died for them.

One of the best lines in the book is when he says that the tribesmen didn't see Jesus as a blond hair blue eyed man but as one of them.