Author: Danny and Diana Shaylor

Where and how the supplies, building materials and fuel drums were loaded onto the boats has been laid out in previous posts.  What happened when the boats arrived at their destination is ‘the rest of the story’. It’s helpful to remember that the freight and the passengers on these ‘supply runs’ shared what might be […]

We all like to revisit comfortable, familiar scenes and places in our minds. Jungle rivers will always be such places for me.  In the early days all the missionaries and their families lived in jungle houses perched on a river bank sandwiched between the green jungle and the river itself whose color depended on the […]

Here in central Florida if you go anywhere the road will take you by or over ponds, lakes, canals, rivers, anything that holds water.  And seeing water almost always takes my mind on an inside the head journey back to the jungle where the river itself is the road.  Here the roads look pretty much […]

We’re all familiar with understanding that Biblical history is really His Story.  Recently an event happened in the jungles of these posts that reminded me of HIS on-going story there in the rain forrest. The story began in a small village nestled on the bank where three rivers converge when Don Jose heard the good […]

It was a milestone in the missionary endeavor among the rain forrest peoples when one member of the jungle team began hauling the supplies for all of the missionaries out in the villages.  It was much more efficient for one man to be responsible for getting the supplies out to the upper reaches of the […]

Most people probably understand the importance of teamwork from the perspective of their job or possibly a family project.  Missionaries however live everyday with the upfront reality that teamwork is not only crucial to the success of their work output but they realize they couldn’t even be out there in those isolated villages without the […]

About the middle of August those winds from the East begin to blow.  The river is still very deep and full.  Much of the jungle covered river flood plain is still under water, flora and fauna still march to the beat of the rainy season but change is in the air.  The first thing you […]

The jungle rivers crest in June and maintain their high water levels through July but will begin to diminish in August.  August will follow July which begins the several months transition to dry season, just as March followed February which began the several months transition to where we are now, that is, rainy season. After […]

When the weather cycle is within normal limits June is always 100% a rainy season month.  The reality being however that there are exceptions to many rules it must be noted that occasionally there will be a year when even the wet season months tend to act like dry season and vice versa.  Since we’re […]

The active, useful lifespan of the little Stinson airplane my father flew out there in the jungle was not very long.  The fabric skin it was covered with, succumbed to the brutal heat and humidity typical to the rain forrest.  God, however, used the little plane to do some important work before the elements took […]