The Unconverted Missionary

By Matthew McNeil

Taking a group of aboriginal tribal children to the US. Living among squatters in the Killing Fields of Mindanao. Rescuing youth targeted for death by the Davao Death Squad. Driven by these and other compelling true stories, this is a vivid and inspiring book! The Unconverted Missionary is a personal journal about a young man who decided to take his new wife to the mission field in search of an adventure. And what an adventure they discovered! One day Matthew is working at a dead-end American job and six months later finds himself walking into a Southeast Asian tribal village. "It was like I'd walked into the pages of a National Geographic magazine." Matthew relates an intriguing encounter when he initiates a confrontation with the village men, and shares a fascinating story about taking a group of aboriginal children to America as part of a worldwide cultural bridging effort. That experience opened the door for an extensive community development project that led many of the villagers to embrace Christ. A few years later, Matthew and his wife, Krys, relocate 500 miles south where the U.S. Embassy warned Americans to stay away from--the volatile island of Mindanao. There they served in a place known as the Killing Fields where they worked with families living in grinding poverty. After learning that troubled teenagers were being targeted for killing by the notorious Davao Death Squad, Matthew pioneered an innovative adventure-based ministry that reached thousands of youth for Christ. Every missionary has two target groups. Those he tries to reach for Christ, and himself. The Unconverted Missionary is a memoir that details a journey of disruption as it forces Matthew to reconsider some of Christ's harder teachings--one in particular--and it took a deeper conversion experience to finally recognize it alone is essential to what Jesus asks of us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520594690
• ISBN13: 9781520594699
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"