![]() ![]() According to a report by The New York Times, the training included navigating a mock native village populated by missionary staff members who pretended to be hostile natives, wielding fake spears. ![]() In 2017, Chau participated in 'boot camp' missionary training by the Kansas City-based evangelical organization All Nations. He first traveled to the Andaman Islands in 20 as part of his missionary trips, but did not visit North Sentinel Island at that time. Prior to 2018, Chau had participated in missionary trips to Mexico, South Africa and Iraqi Kurdistan. He attended Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma, where he managed the university soccer team, and graduated cum laude in 2014 with a B.S. He admired numerous explorers and missionaries including David Livingstone and Bruce Olson. ![]() Throughout his childhood, Chau loved camping, hiking and travelling, and excelled at various club, charity, and other extracurricular activities. John Allen Chau was born on December 18, 1991, in Scottsboro, Alabama, the third and youngest child of Lynda Adams-Chau, an organizer for Chi Alpha, and Patrick Chau, a Chinese-American psychiatrist who left China during the Cultural Revolution. John Allen Chau (Decem– November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, indigenous people in voluntary isolation, after illegally traveling to North Sentinel Island, India, in an attempt to convert the tribe to Christianity. North Sentinel Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India ![]()
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