A chilling letter was penned by missionary before he was killed by 'cannibal tribe' he was trying to convert.
John Allen Chau visited North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean in 2018. He was keen to tell the native Sentinelese people about Jesus after learning about them at school. He had hoped the remote tribe would welcome him, but astonishingly the hostile group killed him with arrows as he arrived at the shore in a canoe.
They had been known to kill anyone who came near them and avoided contact with others for thousands of years The Daily Star reported others stated the North Sentinelese practised cannibalism, but wrongly, this belief grew from misunderstanding about a neighbouring tribe, the Onge, who chopped up and burned the flesh of their dead to prevent them being taken over by evil spirits.
Despite their reputation, John went to the island around November 16th, 2018. The last time anyone saw him alive was when fishermen he hired dropped him off at the island in protected waters. No one saw his death but one fisherman said he saw a "dead person being buried at the shore" that looked like John. This was when they came back to pick him up a few days later.
He left his journal with the fishermen before he went to the island. This is where he wrote the note for his loved ones and said he was 'doing this to establish the kingdom of Jesus on the island'. He asked them not to 'blame the natives if he was killed. John wrote: "You guys might think I'm crazy in all this but I think it's worth it to declare Jesus to these people," he started. Please do not be angry at them or at God if I get killed."
"Rather please live your lives in obedience to whatever he has called you to and I'll see you again when you pass through the veil. This is not a pointless thing - the eternal lives of this tribe is at hand and I can't wait to see them around the throne of God worshipping in their own language as Revelations 7:9-10 states.
"I love you all and I pray none of you love anything in this world more than Jesus Christ."