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This may be the first time in a post at Faith Reviewed that I have included a link to another blog but really feel this particular blog post should be shared because of its excellent missions-focused message. 

Excerpted from NTM Blogs/Randy and Diana Smyth...

"Borneo is an island bigger than the state of Texas, located on the equator north of Australia. I was there near the center that night, in the middle of a river, where I was trying to sleep on a cold, wet rock next to our dugout canoe.

There had not been much rain upriver so the river banks around us were high. My father and I had nearly lost the boat in the rapids, a waterfall, below us. We most certainly were not going back there in the dark. Going up the river, we could no longer see to navigate around the rocks, the ironwood snags or the treacherous rapids in the river up to the tribal village which was our destination. 

So there we were, in the dark, in the middle of the river, on cold, wet rocks trying to rest. We were surrounded by dense jungle filled with billions of insects, deadly snakes and many other wild jungle creatures such as leopards, ocelots, monkeys and large orangutans. We had heard rumors of elephants, rhinos and tigers. We knew crocodiles lived in the river but hoped the rapids kept them downstream. We were fifteen minutes away from a second contact with the people of the Da’an river..."

Keep reading at NTM blogs/Randy and Diana Smyth (opens in a new window)