This is an amazing story! One of the missionaries killed was the father of our son's math teacher. The way he'd explained it is in 1956, 5 American missionaries (including his father) were killed by a violent tribe of South American indians. What happened since then and is still happening today has made this one of the most well known missionary stories of the 20th Century. Like his own father, he had also become a minister to reach out to those who need unconditional love, peace, and guidance. He said they (the misionaries' families) have since carried out the original goal of their fathers and finally made successful contact with the tribe. The missionaries' families have also forgiven AND befriended the tribe members, built a mutual trust, bonded with them, and actually had some of the tribe members come to the US to visit. Again, an AMAZING story! Definitely a must read.Read full review
Elisabeth Elliot Through Gates of Splendor 40th Anniversary Edition Page 271 "It is not the level of our spirituality that we can depend on. It is God and nothing less than God, for the work is God’s and the call is God’s and everything is summoned by Him and to His purposes, the whole scene, the whole mess, the whole package—our bravery and our cowardice, our love and our selfishness, our strengths and our weaknesses."
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This book had the lives of all the five families whose husbands were martyered by the Indians in Equador. Written by one of the wifes. Many pictures showing the families and how the wifes carried on to do their part for spreading the gospel to the Indians, the very ones who killed their husbands and how they forgave just as Christ forgave us our sins. Wonderful book and really can't say a bad thing about it. Love it and will read it again one of these days.
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