peace child
Peace Child
By
Zedcliff Kiche (13-0941)
A Theme-based Literature Review of Peace Child
Submitted to
Winnie Mbatha
Communication Department
Of
Daystar University
Athi River, Kenya
In partial fulfillment of the requirement for
COMMUNICAITON AND CULUTURE I
(INS111B)
August 2013
After reading Peace Child by Don Richardson, I was once again reminded of the power Christ has in this world. Peace child is an excellent and rather fast read. It has the potential to amaze any reader of capabilities missionaries have on different cultures. When you begin the book, it is hard to believe that a couple of Christian people have the courage and faith in their lord enough to go to the primitive culture of the Sawi people and try to make a change. I think their biggest challenge was to try to make friendship with a culture whose people pride themselves on treachery towards others. The Sawi people are known for their ritual of making friendships with outsiders, inviting them over for meals, and slaughtering them for the whole village to eat as a celebrative feast. Cannibalism is an accepted and normal part of life for such people.
There are many concepts that we have learned in class that are portrayed in Peace Child. I believe that understanding such concepts better helps the reader know why Don and Carol Richardson were successful in converting over half of the Sawi people to Christianity. Don Richardson applied a lot of Donald Smith’s propositions when communication with the Sawi people:
Communication is Involvement
In this theory, Donald suggests that we communicate by being involved. Don Richardson does this throughout the book with the Sawi people. He is constantly involving himself while trying to communicate with the people. He learns their language, helps with the building of their housing and church, and teaches the people about Christ. He is constantly interacting with the people and is his involvement allows him to
By
Zedcliff Kiche (13-0941)
A Theme-based Literature Review of Peace Child
Submitted to
Winnie Mbatha
Communication Department
Of
Daystar University
Athi River, Kenya
In partial fulfillment of the requirement for
COMMUNICAITON AND CULUTURE I
(INS111B)
August 2013
After reading Peace Child by Don Richardson, I was once again reminded of the power Christ has in this world. Peace child is an excellent and rather fast read. It has the potential to amaze any reader of capabilities missionaries have on different cultures. When you begin the book, it is hard to believe that a couple of Christian people have the courage and faith in their lord enough to go to the primitive culture of the Sawi people and try to make a change. I think their biggest challenge was to try to make friendship with a culture whose people pride themselves on treachery towards others. The Sawi people are known for their ritual of making friendships with outsiders, inviting them over for meals, and slaughtering them for the whole village to eat as a celebrative feast. Cannibalism is an accepted and normal part of life for such people.
There are many concepts that we have learned in class that are portrayed in Peace Child. I believe that understanding such concepts better helps the reader know why Don and Carol Richardson were successful in converting over half of the Sawi people to Christianity. Don Richardson applied a lot of Donald Smith’s propositions when communication with the Sawi people:
Communication is Involvement
In this theory, Donald suggests that we communicate by being involved. Don Richardson does this throughout the book with the Sawi people. He is constantly involving himself while trying to communicate with the people. He learns their language, helps with the building of their housing and church, and teaches the people about Christ. He is constantly interacting with the people and is his involvement allows him to