NTM Online: Kidstuff: Eliel

			Contents: Where he lives When he was sick When he was hungry Are you like Eliel? Activities About the story Teacher's version
	The Faith of Eliel by Gwen Hartman

Part One: Where he lives

Eliel is a Yanomami Indian boy. He is 9 years old, and he lives in the jungles of Brazil. Eliel and his people live in a roundhouse.

A Yanomamo roundhouse.

A roundhouse is a large oval building made of poles and woven palm leaves. It looks a bit like a football stadium. The Yanomamis live just inside the outer wall.

The center of the roundhouse is open to the sky. Each family has its own cooking fire. There are no walls to separate the families, only poles. The people sleep around their fires in hammocks, strung from those poles.

Missionaries live in houses next to the roundhouse. They have learned the Yanomami language. The missionaries have told Eliel and the others in his tribe about Jesus. Eliel has believed that Jesus is his Savior, and he makes sure everyone knows that.

When Eliel was 7, he was so sick ...

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