God Sent Me A Woman Missionary in the Jungle

A young woman, raised in a wealthy family, sets off alone into a primitive jungle culture because she feels that God has called her to evangelize the people.

Raised in wealth and privilege in Southern California, the last thing Sharon Porterfield ever expected was to become a Christian missionary in the hostile, unforgiving jungles of Southeast Asia. Seemingly against her will, she was strongly compelled to visit Burma and the Karen people who live there. She gave in and went. The country was hot, humid, and alive with scorpions and malaria infected mosquitoes, and the Burmese Army was always a threat, periodically launching genocidal attacks against the Karen. The most basic of creature comforts, like indoor toilets and easy access to food, were absent. Despite all this, Sharon fell in love with the Karen people and knew this was going to be her life's work, because God Sent her.

Born in Southern California to atheist parents, as a young adult, Sharon Porterfield became a Christian. In her mid-thirties she felt a calling and has spent her life in the jungles of Southeast Asia as a missionary to the Karen people. Douglas Wellman was a television producer-director in Hollywood for over thirty years, and assistant dean of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Now retired, he is a Christian minister and works part-time as a chaplain at a Southern Utah hospital. He is the co-author of Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes; Five Minutes, Mr. Byner!; and Surviving Hiroshima: A Young Woman's Story.