I find it incredible that the author has managed to gather so much detail for this story having not been regularly present amongst this people group himself. Lords of the Earth is by the author of Peace Child and is written in a similar style but it relates to a different tribal group. Disease wracked and demon haunted.'Īnother really great book that I found hard to put down. Their eyes lacked expression, like little holes leading to nothingness.what was it that was lost beyond these ranges and possibly waiting for him? Perhaps hundreds of thousands of them. 'The people there struck him as furtive, haunted.

Since 1977, Don has served as ambassador-at-large for World Team, a mission organization.ĭon holds an honorary doctorate of literature from Biola University in La Mirada, California, is an ordained pastor and speaks at more than 40 church conferences each year. Peace Child is the story of this mission.Īll of Richardson's books focus on what he calls his 'redemptive analogy' thesis: the idea that each culture has some story, ritual, or tradition that can be used to illustrate and apply the Christian gospel message. More than half of the Sawi accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Don designed an alphabet suited to the Sawi language, authored 19 primers, taught the tribesmen to read in their native tongue and translated the entire New Testament. He and his wife, Carol, spent 15 years among the Sawi, a Stone Age tribe of Irian Jaya. DON RICHARDSON, author of Secrets of the Koran, Lords of the Earth and Eternity in Their Hearts, has been studying the Muslim world for more than 30 years.

Lords of the earth by don richardson