This has
been sitting on my nightstand for a while and this morning I picked it up and
read it over breakfast. Then I read it during lunch and kept reading until I
finished it. What an interesting story! I know it only scratched the surface of
Cameron Townsend’s life.
Written for
youth this book chronicles the life of Cameron Townsend as he struggles to
figure out what to do with his life as a teenager, to becoming a missionary in
Guatemala, to translating the New Testament into Cakchiquel, to founding Camp
Wycliffe that later became the Summer Institute for Linguistics and Wycliffe
Bible Translators, to founding JAARS and all the work that went into
establishing those organizations.
His was a
very full, very busy life with sorrow and tragedy but also triumph and success.
I never knew how Wycliffe Bible Translators got founded and now I want to learn
more about Uncle Cam as he became known, his family, and the many amazing
stories translators have to tell.
If you are
interested in the history of missions, Wycliffe Bible Translators, or Mexico
and Guatemala then this is a book worth reading.
Go read it!
Find it at a library near you;
Buy it from Amazon ($6.99 ebook); Buy it from ChristianBooks.com ($6.69 pb); Buy it from Barnes & Noble ($8.09 pb)
(Prices good
as of May 18, 2014 always double check for yourself)
Disclosure:
I borrowed this book from the library. The opinions I have expressed are my
own.
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