Elliot met him while he was a student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and they were married for 36 years, until her death. Last year, as Elliot's health declined, WORLD interviewed her third husband, Lars Gren. She called it living sacramentally, and her rock-solid principles shaped my life. Setting her sights “on things above” (Colossians 3:1), Elisabeth ministered among three indigenous groups in Ecuador before helping listeners and readers find joy in the ordinary affairs of life-like cooking meals and cleaning toilets-on her globally syndicated radio program. Wismer wrote:Įlisabeth believed in asking this foundational question: Is this God's will for me, right now, in this place? … Unapologetically, Elisabeth espoused such truths as: give to get, lose to find, and die to live. This is your friend, Elisabeth Elliot.Įlliot's former radio producer, Jan Wismer, described the missionary as a “pioneer and prayer warrior” in a 2013 tribute by Today's Christian Woman (a CT sister publication).

DeMoss wrote that Elliot “steadfastly demonstrated what it meant to simply 'trust and obey.'” She also recalled Elliot's signature opening line on-air: You are loved with an everlasting love. Nancy Leigh DeMoss, whose program Revive Our Hearts succeeded Elliot's, was among the first to announce her death on social media. She wrote for CT on the prayer of the five widows, disappointment in Jesus, a lesson from the Resurrection, and what happens when death takes away a loved one. The daughter of missionaries to Belgium and a graduate of Wheaton (which offers a full biography), Elliot went on to write more than a dozen additional books and launched a radio show, Gateway to Joy, which ran through 2001. She left because she saw her family killed by her own tribe.Image: Billy Graham Center Archives / Wheaton College The bucket was gradually lowered onto the ground Who was Dayuma? A girl who fled from the Auca tribe to live with the missionaries. Neighborhood Their region Terminal city The Auca settlement Palm beach Where missionaries would land/set up contact camp How would the missionaries 'soften up' Auca hostility? start a long, cautious campaign of dropping gifts Explain the 'spiraling line method' 1,500 ft of fishing line was tied to and airplane and small bucket.

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