This book contains chapters 1 and 2 of the book yet to be completed of Arnold Durtschi's youth and missionary experiences. As no man is an island, this book also contains information in chapter 1 of Alfred Durtschi, Ida Durtschi, Isabel Walker, Walter Durtschi, Lucy Phillips and Lucile Edlefsen. Main players of chapter 2 in addition to himself include Thomas E. McKay, Edward Rindlisbacher, Glenn Schwendiman, Henry Duersch, Delmont Newman, Henry Kohler, Elmer Stettler, William Leroy Warner Jr, Wilford Lamar Bruderer, Don Lee Earl, Paul Scott Nicholes, James Robert Gillespie, Lyman Rulon Wettstein, Eugene Reed Saurey, Walter Herbert Ruf, Adolf Heinrich Ruf and Wallace Felt Toronto.