Welcome to another look into the life and message of Elizabeth Alley, calling us to live

to a higher standard each day.

Not satisfied with a shallow existence.

As this podcast series continues in the coming weeks, we'll hear from family, friends,

and others who are influenced by Elizabeth's life and message.

Today we continue the story of her time in Ecuador.

It's an extended series.

The story includes, eventually, the death of five missionaries seeking to reach the

Alka or Waldoni people.

Well, today we continue that series with Gateway to Joy program 83.

Point A to Point B.

And later in the podcast, our second Gateway to Joy program is called Birth and Death

in the Jungle.

Next to we hear from Johnny Eric Centata.

She's going to talk about Jim Alley's writing.

He had a way of being, shall we say, poetic.

For centuries, ever since the year 195, I looked it up.

We've heard that saying that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.

And certainly the blood of Jim Alley and his missionary friends overflowed the ink wells

into which Elizabeth dipped her pen and wrote such wise words.

Words that not only inspired generations of courageous missionaries who carried and

planted the banner of Christ and jungles and deserts and mountain villages and cities

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