KOILAWAN:

Ordinary Christian guy attempts to bring Good News to unreached

Cross-Cultural Missionary Recounts Experiences in Philippines

Ordinary Christian guy attempts to bring Good News to unreached

2008-04-08


LONGWOOD, FL-Are you ready to experience living in a remote village to introduce change to a tribal people? Are you prepared to give up the conveniences of the modern world to bring the Good News to the unreached? As a Christian worker, author Edmund Melig Industan did just that, living among the Ata Manobo tribe in the Philippines. His book, Koilawan: Letters and Poems of a Jungle Dad-Mom (paperback, 978-1-60477-163-3), is a heartwarming and enlightening look at how he lived cross-culturally and introduced change-particularly Christianity-to the tribe. For those preparing for cross-cultural ministry, and for students in cultural anthropology and intercultural studies, this will prove to be an invaluable tool.

"Christian ministry is overwhelmingly challenging as you learn the language and culture so as to meaningfully introduce our living God," says Industan. "However, no matter how difficult the process is, Christians can overcome when we cling to our faith and the promises of God. It is highly rewarding to see the fruit of our 'little faith' germinate and grow wildly as it spreads out into seemingly unreachable and hardened hearts."

Although he describes himself as "an ordinary Christian guy," very few can say they saved and cared for a cursed child while living in a remote jungle as a cross-cultural missionary. It was experiences like these that would eventually form the basis of Koilawan. Industan hopes his readers will be enlightened and inspired by the message in his book, and will desire to bring God's Good News to other unreached people.

Edmund Melig Industan resides in Pasadena, California. He has an M.A. in education and a Ph.D. in sociology.

 

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