The Mennonites Making the Amazon Their Home

After weeks of living in jungle tents, the handful of Mennonite families trying to make a new home deep in the Peruvian Amazon began to despair. Wasps attacked as they tried to clear forest. Heavy rains turned the road to their camp to mud.Running low on supplies, some wanted to turn back. Instead, they worked harder and eventually carved out an enclave.“There’s a place here where I wanted to live so we came and…