Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Howard was born in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, where her parents were missionaries, and grew up in the United States. She studied classical Greek at Wheaton College, hoping to translate the Bible. She went to Ecuador as a missionary, and in 1953 she married Jim Elliot, whom she had met at Wheaton, in Quito. In January 1956 Jim and four other missionaries were killed while trying to make contact with the Waorani, an isolated Indigenous people of eastern Ecuador. Elisabeth wrote Through Gates of Splendor (1957), an account of the men and their mission, which became widely read. In 1958 she, her young daughter Valerie and Rachel Saint, the sister of one of the missionaries, went to live among the Waorani, staying for about two years. She later returned to the United States, where she wrote many books, taught, and spoke widely, hosting a radio program, Gateway to Joy, for many years. She died in Magnolia, Massachusetts, in 2015.

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Faith: American Christian missionary and author; she became a member of the Episcopal Church with her second husband. Source: Wikipedia