Chief Artemio and his tribe just days before he almost died

Years after David saw Amy for the last time that day, he received a letter in the mail. Amy had reached out to tell him the rest of the story. The Christian couple had adopted her and Amy was now married with children and following God. She thanked David for saving her life. Photo: 1980s Atlanta Skyline, Credit: the AJC

David visiting Stephanie in the Dominican Republic, 1980s

A photo from the awkward photoshoot. David had yet to discover his letter had been lost in postal service.

David and Stephanie in Albania, 1995

Arriving to Mario's house on the Amazon River

A tour of Mario's kitchen

The first picture David received of the Urarina

Stephanie with "triangle hair" after a long day of traveling by boat

Mario's son navigating a boat around fallen trees

Scott on a return trip pointing out where the team had to lift the boat over logs in the blackwater

The Dominican interpreter during the dramatic blackwater trip

David's dramatized retelling of a trip on location in the jungle

The day after the river hurricane; the boat motor dies

David's attempt at exercise while traveling by boat for days

Arriving to the night's accommodations: a trader's outpost

The rodent aftermath

A tour of the hut and comments on the eventful night

The view of "Mirror" by morning

An Urarina village

An Urarina village as seen by small jungle plane

Arriving to the Urarina village

Breakfast in the village

The team standing with Mario and Chief Artemio

Scott and the blowgun competition

Morning worship and prayer in the meeting house

Baptisms in the Amazon river

The woman and child who were the last survivors of a village swept by dengue fever

Listening to the book of Mark in Urarina for the very first time

Ron and Julian, the Bible translator and the very first Urarina believer standing with the completed Urarina New Testament. Both Ron and Julian went to be with Jesus in 2026.

The motocar ride; Mirla recording the voice of Mary in the Jesus Film

Greetings in Urarina; experiencing a phone call for the first time

A door–locking tutorial gone awry

The Jesus Film showing next to the tall boat parked on the river

Presentations from each Urarina village represented

Watching the Jesus Film in Urarina on solar-powered DVD players, which they took back to their villages

Amanda and Josiah fishing for piranhas

Mario's renovated house

The moments after Chief Artemio jumped up from his deathbed, completely healed

José was training to be a witchdoctor, like his father and grandfather before him. When he watched Artemio get healed, he chose to follow Jesus and became one of the first Christian leaders among the Urarina. His daughter and her family are tribal missionaries today.

Danny in the jungle city of Iquitos

Practicing setting up a portable solar-powered projector to show the Jesus Film

Missionaries from different tribes and languages at the Aurora Training Center

Community health training with Dr. Kathy, David's sister

A health training session at Aurora; identifying their community's greatest felt needs

Two Urarina girls at Aurora

A first aid training

Marcos, the Brazilian missionary who oversees the Aurora tribal training center

Young people from different ethnicities at Aurora for a tribal youth conference

An indigenous gathering at Aurora

Prayer and worship

Listening to the Bible in their own language on a solar-powered Audio Bible device called the Torch