A Conversation With The Chief Of The Boras!

On Thursday night at about 9:00 PM the phone rang in our home here in Lima, and on the other end of the line was my friend, Liborio, the chief of the Bora tribe in Iquitos!

On one of our prior trips to Iquitos I gave Liborio my FRC business card and also gave him our home phone number, then yesterday someone loaned him a cellphone, and so he called me from the jungle!

It was great to hear from Liborio. He is a young man, probably around 30 years old. His father had been the chief of the Boras for many years, but then his father died, and his father selected Liborio, from among all his sons, to be the new chief of the Boras after his death.

We talked about our trip to Iquitos next week, and the Amazon River baptism that we will have on Tuesday, March 4. Liborio was very excited to talk about the trip and the baptism, and he will be making sure that the Boras are well represented at the baptism.

It's not every day that you receive a phone call from the chief of a native tribe in the Amazon jungle, and so yesterday's phone call was something very special!