![]() Within a week, they were attacked and killed on January 8, 1956. (The word auca is actually a derogatory term and has fallen out of usage.) After months of planning and preliminary contact with the Wourani, the five missionaries landed in their territory in a single-engine Piper airplane. Jim and four other missionaries became convinced they should take the gospel to a hostile, unreached tribe who were referred to at the time as the Aucas. Their daughter Valerie was born 10 months later. ![]() After a number of years of uncertainty, they married in 1953 and went to South America as missionaries. The details of their courtship are told in her book Passion and Purity. It was there that she met her future husband, Jim Elliot. Her father was editor of The Sunday School Times.Įlisabeth entered Wheaton College to study classical Greek for the purpose of becoming a Bible translator. They returned to the United States shortly after her birth, and Elisabeth grew up in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. She rose to prominence after her husband, Jim Elliot, and four other missionaries were killed by the Auca tribe (now known as the Waodani/Wourani/Hourani tribe) in Ecuador.Įlisabeth Elliot (née Howard) was born on December 21, 1926, in Brussels, Belgium, where her parents were missionaries. ![]() ![]() Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) was a Christian missionary, speaker, and author. ![]()
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