A 1960 update on Elisabeth Elliot and her plan to bring the gospel to the Ecuadorian tribe. Four years ago this week the world learned of the slaying of five young American missionary men at the hands ...
In 1956 Roger Youderian, Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully and pilot Nate Saint launched Operation Auca. The Aucas were one of the most difficult tribes to reach; they didn’t like outsiders and ...
On Jan. 8, 1956, a group of Auca Indians in the jungles of Ecuador speared and hacked to death five American missionaries. The stories made headlines worldwide. The Auca tribe, which consisted of ...
Edward McCully, the strapping son of a Milwaukee bakery executive, was a normal, wholesome, small-college boy who played end on the football team, was elected class president, won the oratory contest ...
(UPDATED) Ecuadorian woman was instrumental in Jim Elliot and Nate Saint’s ill-fated outreach to the Amazon’s Auca, and later helped to convert the tribe to Christianity. Dayuma, the indigenous Auca ...