“Steve Saint texted me last Sunday, reminding me that it was the 67th anniversary of the death of his father Nate Saint and the other missionary martyrs in Ecuador: Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Roger Youderian, and Pete Fleming.” - Randy Alcorn
“The revised memorial takes a longer view at the well-known story of the missionaries killed by the Waorani.” - C.Today
“We’ve been telling the story for 63 years and counting, after all. We know what happened. But in God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador, historian Kathryn T. Long suggests we may not know as much as we think.” - TGC
Reprinted with permission from As I See It, which is available free by writing to the editor at [email protected].
“He is no fool who gives away what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.”
That quote is universally associated today with the name Jim Elliot, one of five American missionaries who were martyred in South America in the 1950s. He had indeed written them in his journal, and they convey a profound truth. But they did not originate with Elliot. Almost those precise words were spoken and written centuries earlier.
