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A missionary to the Indonesian province of Papua, Stringer lived her love for Christ and His children to the exclusion of personal gain and modern convenience. Through detailed memory, anecdotes, and excerpts from her journals, she vividly renders the array of unforgettable characters she lived, worked, and praised with for forty years. 

Once, a headhunter, Bidaw, had one jungle fruit he wanted to divide…He peeled it with a dirty ax and shared it the most straightforward way he knew – he bit it in half. I got the half that came out of his mouth. On another occasion, a young fellow…reported that his friend had brushed his teeth for the first time in his life with my toothbrush, three days previously…Loving lost people can mean deliberately exposing ourselves to such things.

This passage embodies the heart of Jesus Led Me All the Way, as well as the casual eloquence of Margaret Stringer’s prose. Living out love is an evocative, soul-stirring phrase, containing nothing of the worldly, starry-eyed, stomach-a-flutter ethereal. Instead, the concept seems very like the hammering out of salvation on God’s glowing forge.

In February 1983, my friend Gail Vinje, Citak Christians Sahu, and Yakub Fiak, and I found our lives to be in danger and nearly killed by some very primitive people in the Brazza River area…But in just a few days we were evacuated from the field, Sahu said to me, “Just because they were about to kill us doesn’t mean that we can forget them. We must go back and tell them God’s Word.” 

To witness such zeal and faith must surely be a moving experience for any Christian, and certainly much more so to one who works in distant and primitive lands. Jesus Led Me All the Way is simply one of the most engaging and immersive recollections of missionary life ever written.

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The purpose of this book is to present a factual account of the opening of the villages of Vakabuis, Esaun, and Serai to the Gospel, with particular emphasis on Vakabuis.

Most of the information in this book was taken directly from reports written at the time the trips.

This story is a small part of what God is doing in the Brazza River area of Irian Jaya. Because of space, time, and resource material, and because I was more personally involved in the ministry in Vakabuis, this book of necessity had to be limited to Vakabuis with a minimum of information about some of the other villages.

It was an indescribably awesome privilege to be involved in this exciting ministry. I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to my coworkers at Senggo, especially to the station head, Clarence Gillett, and Ken Dresser. Their work to keep the outboard motors running correctly and for attention to other logistical problems made the trips as easy and as comfortable as possible.

My thanks to Gail Vinje and Ruth Dougherty for their wonderful fellowship in this ministry. I am privileged to partner with them in writing this book and grateful to them for their narration of these events. We had some great times, which I will not forget, many of which we could not put in the book.

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The account in this book I translated from the Indonesian language, and I have attempted to preserve the author's style of writing. Therefore, it may sound stilted sometimes in English.

Initially written in Indonesian for people living in W. Papua, some things will not be easily understood by Americans, not knowing the W. Papuan culture. Therefore, I have added explanations in boxes written in italics.

The narrative here is mainly about Yohana Mayor Faidiban, but there was another teacher/evangelist, Nimrod Rumpumbo, who I've mentioned briefly. He also was killed, and his wife taken hostage. She was able to escape shortly after being taken as she was from that area and knew the jungle better and also had a more aggressive personality than Yohana.

I, along with Marge Smith, had the joy of working with Nimrod in the village of Amar in my early years on the field. I have precious memories of those years there.

I had the privilege of working with Dominggus Mayor and his family at Senggo for more than 25 years. If you have read the book "From Cannibalism to Christianity," you will know that Dominggus was with us on the first trip into Vakabuis, and he was the one who came with the outboard motor to take Gail and I back to Senggo after our evacuation. It would take another book to tell the memories I have of working with this precious family.

Many incredible Christian nationals who worked with us and sacrificed so much to serve the Lord so often have gone unnoticed. I praise the Lord for each of them and am so thankful for the memories of the wonderful times we shared. I am confident that the Lord will reward them in Heaven, and I want to be there to witness it and to give them a standing ovation.

I pray that this booklet will be a blessing to you.

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