Murder, Forgiveness, and a Flying Car

This is absolutely one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Not only because something from decades of science fiction might finally become practical, but because the purpose of its development is to serve the Kingdom of God.

The inventor's name is Steve Saint. His dad was new tribes missionary, Nate Saint. Steve's dad, Nate, flew airplanes into the jungles of Equador to bring the light of the Gospel to tribes deep in the wilderness. When Steve was only 5 years old, his father was killed by the Waodani tribe in an attempt to make peacful contact with them. Dispite the murder of Nate, Steve's aunt, Rachel, continued to try to make peaceful contact with the Waodani's. Eventually she succeed and led most of the tribe to follow Christ.

(Steve's journaling of these events inspired the movie "The End of the Spear".)

In an amazing act of forgiveness and love, Steve, at the age of 10, went to live in the jungle with the Waodani's -- the same tribe that had killed his father. After some time learning the jungle way of life with the tribe, Steve was baptized by two of the men who killed his father 5 years earlier.

Incredibly, it is the Waodani people who led Steve to invent such brilliant machine. Tribes deep in the jungle are usually inaccessable by car and by foot due to bridge washouts or impossibly rugged terrain. The Waodani's asked Steve to make something that could help them reach the other tribes in the Amazon to teach them to "walk the trail of God".

Check this out, then buy me one.