Last week marked the passing of a woman whose missionary work and writings inspired hundreds of thousands of Christians to live lives of faith and obedience to God, and led thousands to bring the gospel to people in countries around the world. Elisabeth Elliot died June 15 at age 88, but her legacy will continue through the lives transformed by her example. I knew her simply as â??Aunt Betty,â? as she was my fatherâ??s sister.
Elliot first entered the news in January 1956, when her husband, Jim Elliot, and four other missionaries were killed by a group of Auca Indians, today known as Waorani, in the deepest jungles of Ecuador. The five missionariesâ??three of them, like Elisabeth, were former students at Wheaton College in Illinoisâ??felt called by God to bring the gospel to this fiercest of tribes, one that had no connections to the outside world.
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