Non-fiction / Paperback
By John Dekker
Read the incredible story of Ted's parents John and Helen Dekker - how they met, ended up in Irian Jaya and worked amongst the Dani stoneage people in Indonesia for over twenty years. Read stories about the culture and people that Ted grew up with and find out if he really ate live spiders!
The Dani tribes-people hidden away in the remote Toli Valley of Irian Jaya used only stone tools and had no written language. Then, in one generation, they took the always dangerous, sometimes fatal, leap from the Stone Age into the twentieth century. At this critical time John and Helen Dekker gave themselves to the Dani, helping them discover their position in the universe and their destiny as helpers of other tribes.
Torches of Joy is a model for cross-cultural communication strategy and one of the twentieth century's most striking chronicles of God's grace and power.
John Dekker and his wife Helen, spent twenty one years in Irian Jaya. Today they encourage and train Christian leaders in the two-thirds world to reach unreached people groups within their own and neighboring countries. John holds a master's degree in missiology as well as a doctorate.