Resumo de End Of The Spear

End of the Spear is a true story written by Steve Saint, a man who returns to help the Waodani people in Ecuador that speared his father and four others when he was only 5 years old.

In 1956, the five missionaries, Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Roger Youderian and Pete Fleming, were to become known around the world because of their brutal spearing at the hands of several members of the Waodani tribe. The Waodani were known as one of the most violent tribes in Ecuador. The missionaries, with their families, had traveled to this area to bring the Christian message to the tribe and attempt to stop at least some of the killings. The only way the tribe knew to settle disputes, actual or imaginary, was to spear the individual and possibly the entire family of the suspected adversary. Some of the missionary families stayed in facilities abandoned by the Shell Oil Company due to the violence of the native tribes.

Steve Saint?s aunt, his father?s sister Rachel, stayed to work with the tribe and Steve lived among the tribe as a youngster himself. He never knew who exactly had speared his father and the others until he became an adult. He went back to the area for a visit, and the tribesmen requested he move back to them and assist them in learning how to live in a world starting to close in on their land. After much prayer and discussion, Steve eventually moves back to live with the tribe, bringing along his wife, three sons and a daughter, Stephanie. The book describes in great detail the work the Saint family under took to help the Waodani tribe learn the ways of the world and learn about God?s word and to put it into practice.

Eventually, Steve and family bring two tribesmen, Mincaye and Tementa, back to the United States to see the lives of others. Some of the descriptions of the reactions of Mincaye and Tementa described in the book are comical, but a very true reaction to what the reader would expect from people having lived all their lives in a jungle to have at the ways of the modern world.

There is an incident toward the end of the book which shows not only Mincaye and Tementa, but the Saints as well, that God does choose to work in mysterious ways, and no one is excluded from hardship. The book is an interesting story of forgiveness for the worst kind of action taken by strangers, and who eventually learn to become family. Some of the sections on the work done in the jungle by the Saint family as far as buildings, and daily life in the jungle can run on a little too long, but this book is well worth reading.

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