How far would you go to bring God’s Word to a people who’d never seen it written?
This episode tells the remarkable story of Brooks and Nina Buser—who brought Scripture to a tribe of former cannibals that had never heard (or read) the name of Jesus.
Over the course of a decade, they learned the language from scratch, developed a written alphabet, taught literacy for the first time, and translated the Bible—culminating in the birth of the YembiYembi church as the Gospel took root.
After years in the jungle, Brooks now leads Radius International—a training ground often called “the Navy SEALs of missionaries.” In this episode, he joins Rebecca to share what he learned from bringing God’s Word to the unreached.
It’s a story of courage, endurance, and the unstoppable power of God’s Word to reach even the ends of the earth.
CHAPTERS00:00 — From SoCal Comfort to a Remote Tribe in Papua New Guinea3:58 — The YembiYembi People & Their World8:55 — Bringing the Gospel to an Unwritten Language12:04 — Why Reading Scripture Matters13:05 — The Lasting Legacy of Faith in YembiYembi15:55 — Translating the Bible from Scratch19:06 — The Challenges of Missionary Life21:55 — Training for the Field: Radius International25:28 — A Historic Moment: The First Bible in YembiYembi26:49 — Counting the Cost: The Theology of Suffering34:35 — Feeling Called? Next Steps Toward Missions36:40 — Closing Reflections
