Jim had always hoped to have the opportunity to enter the territory of an unreached tribe. In nineteen fifty three we were married in the city of Quito and continued our work together. My studies in classical Greek would one day enable me to work in the area of unwritten languages to develop a form of writing.Ī year after I went to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, whom I had met at Wheaton, also entered tribal areas with the Quichua Indians. By that time, the family had increased to four brothers and one sister. Our family continued to live in Philadelphia and then in New Jersey until I left home to attend Wheaton College. Some of my contemporaries may remember the publication which was used by hundreds of churches for their weekly unified Sunday School teaching materials. and lived in Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, where my father became an editor of the Sunday School Times. When I was a few months old, we came to the U.S. In the wake of Elisabeth Elliot's recent death, with her name and her writings and recordings more visible in the news, it is my hope and prayer that through her witness, many more people learn of these men who freely gave their lives that this tribe would come to faith, and would find courage to let themselves be used by God.From the Author's Web Site: My parents were missionaries in Belgium where I was born.
In the days following Elisabeth's death, I read in one article that at that conference, more than 70% of those attending attributed their service to the inspiration they received from those five men. Steve Saint, son of one of the men, accompanied Waodanis Indians Mincaye and Tementa to the International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists (Amsterdam 2000), where they gave their testimonies.
The sister of another of the men, Rachel Saint, also lived with the tribe - a people who now know God. The author, Elisabeth Elliot, was one of the widows and she and her daughter actually lived with the Auca tribe (called the Waodani) for two years. In January 1956, the five men were killed by members of the tribe, but not before seeds of the Gospel had been planted. They were there to bring the Gospel to the Auca tribe, known to be murderously violent. It is a riveting true story of five men and their wives surrendered to and being used by God in the jungles of Ecuador. I first read this book a few years ago and couldn't put it down.
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