Missionary John Chau Recognized As 2022 Day of The Christian Martyr Inductee by Voice of the Martyrs

Chau was a beloved friend and All Nations fieldworker who wanted to go live among the North Sentinelese tribe and share Jesus

(Kansas City, Missouri U.S.A.) – All Nations Missionary John Allen Chau is being recognized as the 2022 Day of the Christian Martyr inductee by The Voice of the Martyrs (persecution.org/martyr). The Day of the Christian Martyr is recognized on June 29, 2022. It honors the martyrdom of the Apostle Paul and those who have died sharing their faith.

The 26-year-old Chau was allegedly killed in November 2018 while attempting to establish contact with the North Sentinelese tribe in the remote North Sentinel Island, located in the Indian Ocean. It was his desire to live among them, share life, and share the Gospel with the remote North Sentinelese tribe that lives there. The Oral Roberts University graduate, who had received the calling as a teenager to minister to this group, had studied, planned, and trained rigorously since college to share the Gospel with the Sentinelese people. 

Chau joins other inductees, including Rocio Pino from Colombia, Pastor Jean-Paul Sankagui of the Central African Republic, and the Groenewald family killed in Afghanistan. Voice of the Martyrs will add Chau’s name to their 60-foot-long granite Martyr’s Memorial in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where their headquarters is located.

Visitors to the VOM website can also download a video testimony about Chau, a sermon outline, bulletin insert, guided prayer slides and group discussion guide sharing Chau’s story, information about Day of the Christian Martyr and our command to go to the nations. See VOM’s news release.

VOM recently published an article featuring John Chau.