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The Accidental Missionary: A Gringo's Love Affair with Peru by David L. Winters, David Bredeman
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For somebody who has never been associated with any kind of church that does missionary work, I have an inexplicable curiosity about missionary memoirs. So here we are!
I went for this one partly because of the location and partly because the description made me hopeful for a humourous, self-aware story. Unfortunately for me, I found the story of accidentally volunteering to go on a mission trip to be the most intentionally humourous part, and that was of course at the beginning.
Overall...I find moving-to-foreign-country stories most interesting when they focus heavily on people the writer met locally, and that's not really the focus here. For mission stories, I also badly want introspection, probing of one's faith, and analysis of what the mission work is actually doing within the community. And...that's not really what this book offers. This is more of a blind-faith-and-yay-we-converted-some-people-from-one-type-of-Christianity-to-another story. Even so, I'm not sure I ever really learned what Winters believes, or what distinguishes his sect of Christianity from another. So...not really the book for me, just as I am not really the audience for it.
I went for this one partly because of the location and partly because the description made me hopeful for a humourous, self-aware story. Unfortunately for me, I found the story of accidentally volunteering to go on a mission trip to be the most intentionally humourous part, and that was of course at the beginning.
Overall...I find moving-to-foreign-country stories most interesting when they focus heavily on people the writer met locally, and that's not really the focus here. For mission stories, I also badly want introspection, probing of one's faith, and analysis of what the mission work is actually doing within the community. And...that's not really what this book offers. This is more of a blind-faith-and-yay-we-converted-some-people-from-one-type-of-Christianity-to-another story. Even so, I'm not sure I ever really learned what Winters believes, or what distinguishes his sect of Christianity from another. So...not really the book for me, just as I am not really the audience for it.
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