PUWULO is an inspiring story about Jack Weston, a young man from Tennessee, who has been working in Borneo for the past six months. At the end of his work, through what most would consider a strange coincidence of events, with only a small life raft to keep him afloat, Jack is swept away by a rogue hurricane. Never knowing if the next wave will spell his doom, or not, he finally accepts the fact that he has no control over the wind and wave driven raft, but rather that God is the one who is, and always has been, in control, not just over the wind and waves, but over his entire life, and not only in the major events of his life, but in the small things as well.
After making it through the storm, exhaustion, and dehydration, Jack finally reaches land, only to be knocked unconscious as he is tossed ashore. Waking in a place of relative comfort, where everything is clean and white, and hearing the sweet angelic voice of a young Southern lady, Jack initially feels that he has arrived in Heaven, only to be jarred back to reality by the pain that he feels in his tired sore body.
It just happens that the young lady that Jack heard is Mary Jane Hammond, the daughter of the local missionary on the island of Puwulo. Puwulo is a very remote tropical island in the Pacific Ocean, where the people have no real concept of money, there is essentially no communication system, there is no immediate form of transportation off of the island, and about half of the population are pagans who are not far removed from their ancestral traditions of spirit worship and headhunting.
Jack, now convinced that there are no coincidences, and that God brought him to the island for a reason, begins to draw closer to God, falls in love, and visits a former headhunting longhouse where he is the catalyst that helps the pagan natives to accept Christ. Jack goes on to accept God's call to the mission field, gets thrown in jail for piracy, becomes rich, is accused of heresy, meets his only remaining relative, loses a dear friend, serves as a catalyst for revival among the surrounding islands, helps fight tropical disease which nearly claims Mary Jane's life, brings the entire population of Puwulo together for the first time, other than to do battle with each other, and then is asked to leave the place he has come to know as home. Through all of the ups and downs of his life, which Jack relates to the waves he endured while in the life raft, he draws closer and closer to God, exercising his faith which only serves to make it stronger, and as such Jack comes to know God's Peace and is finally ready to accept and do the work to which God has truly called him.