Ian and Julie Fallis Your connection with tribal missions 
Missionaries and Gaviao believers
Picture your neighbors running around town waving weapons.
Grabbing lumber from their yards and running through the streets carrying it.
Singing together loudly all night long.
Obsessively scrubbing everything in sight.
Building a big hut to house an influx of visitors.
In some neighborhoods, you might not need much imagination. I hope your neighborhood isn’t like that.
But that’s what it would be like if you lived in a Gaviao village where someone had died recently. All the things they do after a death have spiritual significance to them. When the rituals are done, the village can get back to normal.
The Gaviaos respond to death differently from us because they view death differently. To them, death (more…)
