Bob Walters, a Marine Corps helicopter pilot turned United Methodist pastor, regularly journeyed to DR Congo for deep listening tours from 1991 to 2017. Bob served as the Director of Connectional Ministries for the North Katanga Episcopal Area and cofounded Friendly Planet Missiology. His first book, The Last Missionary, has become a core text in a number of university mission courses.
Kate Koppy is an Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) in the Department of Humanities and Languages at the New Economic School in Moscow where she teaches students to meet the world in its stories and to shape the world with their writing. She studies the interaction of narrative and community and has published on fairy tales, textiles, and medieval manuscripts.

The Last Missionary is a bicycle adventure story set in remote districts in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bob Walters travels with a team of Congolese colleagues discovering the state of the villages run over by the Pan-African war that devastated the region's people through the terror of rape and the killing of millions.
Along the way, Bob offers the reader a number of short tutorials and reflections on missiology, the study of mission systems. He ponders patronage and cargo cults, and asks the question, ""Is Jesus the answer?"" But this is not an answer book, it is a book in search of better questions.
The Last Missionary is a challenge to both evangelicals and progressives in the church, missionaries and mission volunteers, and even non-religious aid workers.