Wednesday, January 2, 2019

"A friend's reflection on John Chau’s journey to North Sentinel Island''

" It is fundamental to understanding John Chau's intentions that one know he planned to live there. His desire was to become one of them, hunting alongside the North Sentinelese, sleeping in their huts, eating the same diet and learning their language. His intention was never to simply drop in and preach to them in English as some have erroneously suggested. In fact, one learns from his updates, his journal entries, and from conversations with his friends that John was fully committed to living there for the rest of his life, something that tragically came to pass far earlier than he hoped. Though he very clearly knew the risk and regularly mentioned it in his updates and in his now published journal entries..."

https://www.christianpost.com/voice/a-friends-reflection-on-john-chaus-journey-to-north-sentinel-island.html