An account after the Auca ambush in Ecuador, from CT’s seventh issue. On a beautiful Sunday afternoon a year ago, five young women were asking God for two things regarding their husbands: that they ...
Elizabeth Elliot, a missionary to an unreached for Christ tribe in Ecuador, the Waorani Indians, known as Auca cannibals, had her husband Jim martyred by these Auca Indians in October of 1958. I was a ...
What makes a missionary? What is the drive that sends men into deserts and jungles to face fever and frostbite, indifference and hostility? When so many nearer to home need converting, why should five ...
When Mrs. Elisabeth Elliot and Miss Rachel Saint went to live with killer Auca Indians last month, they took along into the dense Ecuadorian jungle a six-pound transceiver. Upon arrival near the Aucas ...
“Faith does not eliminate questions, faith knows where to take them.” The Christian leader who spoke those words could articulate them because her life proved their validity. The Auca Indian tribe in ...
In this heartfelt memoir, Saint writes about growing up with the Ecuadoran tribe whose members killed his father in 1956, and about taking his wife and teenage children back to Ecuador in the 1990s to ...
QUITO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Ecuador's attorney general on Saturday urged the government to negotiate with oil firms to stop drilling for crude in a protected area deep in the Amazon jungle where Indian ...