ELISABETH
ELLIOT
"My parents were missionaries in Belgium where I was born. When I was a few months old, we came to the U.S. and lived in Germantown, not far from Philadelphia, where my father became an editor of the Sunday School Times. Some of my contemporaries may remember the publication which was used by hundreds of churches for their weekly unified Sunday School teaching materials. Our family continued to live in Philadelphia and then in New Jersey until I left home to attend Wheaton College.. My studies in classical Greek would one day enable me" to work in the area of unwritten languages to develop a form of writing.
. Auca village among the people who killed their loved ones. Elisabeth explained, “The fact that Jim loved and died for the Aucas intensifies my love for them. My reason for being a missionary was one of the few things I have never doubted. I must obey God and I believe this is what He meant for us to do.”She lived among the Aucas for two years and wrote in her book, “The Savage My Kinsman,”“The Aucas are human beings made in the image of God. We have a common source, common needs, common hopes and a common end.” As a result of Elisabeth and Rachel incarnating the love and light of Jesus most of the Auca tribe embraced Christ as their Savior.
GO FORTH IN HIS NAME
n January 1956, Elisabeth’s husband Jim and four other missionaries were killed by a group of Auca Indians in the jungles of Ecuador. This group of former Wheaton College students sensed God’s call to share Christ with an unreached people group. After months of friendly contacts the team approached the village but they were attacked and killed with spears. The missionaries were armed but only fired their weapons in the air because they believed they were ready to meet their maker and the Aucas were not. The story made international headlines but did not end with gruesome deaths;. instead in 1958 Elisabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint did the unthinkable and moved into the
."Following Christ leads to a cross. To be a missionary, an individual MUST deny themselves, MUST take up their cross, and MUST follow Christ. "
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