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Jim Elliot was the first of the five missionaries killed when he and Peter Fleming were greeting two of those attackers. Elliot's body was found downstream, along with those of the other men. Ed McCully's body was found even farther downstream.
Saint was the third of the five missionaries to be speared to death. [3] Saint and the other four men became famous worldwide as a result. Life magazine published a photo essay on the story, [4] which was also covered in Reader's Digest and many other publications. A small school for missionary children in Shell, Ecuador, bore Saint's name for ...
Valerie Elliot. Website. www.elisabethelliot.org. Elisabeth Elliot (née Howard; December 21, 1926 – June 15, 2015) was a Christian missionary, author, and speaker. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca people (now known as Huaorani; also rendered as Waorani or Waodani) of ...
Adoniram Judson (/ ˌædəˈnaɪrəm /; August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist [1] missionary, who worked in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Judson was sent from North America to preach in Burma. His mission and work with Luther Rice led to the formation of the first ...
The frame was reconstructed and is now on display at the headquarters of the Mission Aviation Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho. Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to bring Christianity to the Waorani or Huaorani people of the rain forest of Ecuador. The Waorani, also known pejoratively as ...
Edward Winter Clark ( E. W. Clark) (February 25, 1830 [ 1] – March 18, 1913) was an American missionary. Clark is known for his pioneering missionary work in Nagaland and for his work on transcribing the spoken Ao language into a written script. [ 2][ 3] Clark created the first bilingual dictionary of the Ao language and along with his wife ...
30 April 1952. (1952-04-30) (aged 74) Hampstead, London, England. Nationality. British. Occupation. Missionary in China. Alice Mildred Cable (Chinese: 蓋群英) (21 February 1878 – 30 April 1952) was a British Protestant Christian missionary in China, serving with the China Inland Mission.
Lilias Trotter was born in Marylebone, London, to Isabella and Alexander Trotter, a wealthy stockbroker for Coutts Bank. Both parents were well-read, intellectually curious, and inclined toward humanitarianism. Isabella Strange, a Low Church Anglican and the daughter of colonial administrator Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange, married Alexander ...