Beyond Jungle Walls: Bringing Hope to the Forgotten Congo

by Sandy Thomas

Wandering along paths and thick, overgrown jungle, are Pygmies and forest people whose sharp eyes search for some movement in the underbrush or heavy vines high in the trees above. Trained ears listen for monkey shrieks, various deer snorts or elephants trumpeting. An occasional gorilla pounds his chest and waits for an answer. Bows with poison arrows are raised for the kill. A spear or gun will be lifted in the silence. All are breathless! The kill is at hand, assuring them that meat has been found for another day. The jungle of the Congo gives up its bounty. Gene and Sandy Thomas are the only white people alive today who have written down the history of this part of Congo Brazzaville. Beyond Jungle Walls will challenge you to the great task of carrying the Gospel to the ends of the earth. You will journey with them through their years under communist rule, being on hit lists to be murdered, and living through conflicts as well as an ethnic war. This Book includes never before seen pictures of the Congo 1,000 churches across the US have supported Gene and Sandy Thomas over the last 40 years representing over 100,000 potential buyers for this book.

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2005

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Reviews

[Donn Urban · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written, in my opinion.
A moving tribute of the dedication of Gene and Sandy Thomas, missionaries for 42 years in the “Republic of Congo”, beginning their lives in a mud house in 1955 in a the remote north of the country in the jungle, near the “city” of Impfondo (current population of 41,000). They lived in the rural jungle near the Oubangui River. It is a moving story of tremendous hard work and dedication to the people of this country by this couple. They somehow raised 3 children during this time, eventually having to send them to boarding school due to the uncertainties of life where they lived. She tells a number of stories of Gene’s efforts (with native pastors) to reach the remote areas with the Gospel, and of her eventual medical training in order to help the natives with their many diseases and injuries. Her final stories tell of trying to overcome the Communist government’s tyranny in later years, when they were limited to the capital of Brazzaville, which was being (has been) torn apart by war.