The Journal of Jim and Joy Hadfield shares fifteen years of the ups and downs of life with the local people in the small town of San Joaquín El Beni Bolivia.
These letters document a significant period in this region, and the teeming wildlife of Amazon Bolivia. They travelled extensively along the local rivers and through swamps by canoe, oxcarts, bullocks, and eventually by motorbike and a small river launch to reach isolated jungle settlements.
It’s a story of extreme adventure by today’s standards. Most of all, these letters give us a glimpse of what it took to share God’s love and found a local national Protestant church.
It includes the years in which the devastating Machupo virus was rampant in the area. During these years Jim and Joy courageously offered physical and pastoral care to the dying, and to all who needed it.