Married to Brazil

A young couple with two small children stepped into the dark reaches of the Amazon, five days upriver from any medical resource, in 1960. They had studied the Portuguese language and prepared themselves as much as possible to attend to any emergency that might happen. Supported by prayer, Alan and Barbara Bachmann began their relationship with jungle people who had never seen a doctor or dentist and had exceptionally little education. Most had no chance of knowing Jesus, Son of the loving God who, in His mercy, sent the Bachmanns to live with them in the jungles and on the rivers of Brazil. Looking back on more than fifty years of service, they tell stories which could not be imagined, could not be invented for the most daring fiction. The reality of these experiences and the truths beneath them will amaze, entertain, and inspire. Adventure awaits.