Book Review: "Searching for Paradise: A Story of Chiefs, Gangs, Prime Ministers, and the God Beyond the Clouds" by Charles Nombo Lapa and Janet Dickson
I got this book for free from the folks at Speakeasy, significant since I really didn't have any idea what I'd be reading about. Sometimes the books I get are not that good, but this was not one of those times. I really enjoyed this book and its made me think a lot about what truly effective missions should/ can be. And that's something I've been thinking a lot about since returning from Oaxaca on this year's mission trip with Adventures in Life (and our home church, First Baptist Pasadena). Lapa and Dickson's book is about the introduction of Christianity into Papua New Guinea, and the introduction of the book was fascinating for me. I loved reading about how things were before industry and the rest of the globe introduced themselves to the country. Though that is inevitable in the day and age we live in, it was still intriguing to read about the early tribes, the people's thoughts about growing up, marriage, getting food... and the inevitable conflict ...
