Planning For 3 Years

MacLeod also shared how John had been planning a missionary trip down to the North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, aware that it was considered very serious stuff, and quite dangerous by anyone’s standards. MacLeod iterates, “He [John] recognized the dangers of traveling there, but I think he had a sense of call. This was something he was working on for three years. He was committed to going there. In his view, he was trying to help these people.” But the main question was, did they even want help?

Off-Limits To Visitors

Not only was the island that John was insisting on visiting ‘off-limits to visitors,’ it was even considered against the law. While John’s purpose was to preach to the local tribe there, known to the world as the Sentinelese tribe, this particular group of people had been kept hidden away for basically 55,000 years, having no contact with the outside world.