Poking Holes in the Darkness

by Jaki Parlier

Book Overview

From back cover: How does a New Jersey girl, raised within sight of the New York skyline, make the vast transition to life among Stone Age people in New Guinea? Not easily! ... and not without faith.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939497344
• ISBN13: 9780939497348
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Promise Publishing Company
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring and a Reality Check

Jaki's book shows me that no one culture stands as the focus of the ages. Taking all her needs as a woman, wife, mother, and Christian into a culture that didn't understand her and which she sometimes didn't understand, she and Jim related to the people as people, showing the love of God. I am reminded that much of what I have is superfulous.

A thought-provoking book - very moving and inspiring!

Jaki and Jim Parlier accepted the challenge to bring God's Word to the Managalasi people in Papua New Guinea, who lived in constant fear of evil spirits. Coming from America, the change of lifestyle and culture was huge and Jaki honestly recounts how she struggled to come to terms with it all. Unwelcome at first, there was much heart-ache, sadness & difficult toil. Little of God's power and love seemed to get through to the people, and real friends were very few. Often Jaki wished to leave and never come back, but over the years she found it growing more like home in her heart. She saw how God taught and disciplined her as He used her as an ambassador to the Managalasi despite all her unbelief & weaknesses.After 20 years the New Testament was translated, after God had poured hope into the lives of a community once built on fear, and he had graciously used his own faltering children - Jaki and Jim - to do it.All interested in God & World Mission must read this. Honest & inspiring.