On this episode of five minutes in church history, let's travel a little closer in time and look at the life of Elizabeth Elliot.

She was born in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, and she was a

a and she herself was a missionary, she was an author and a speaker.

And that is the life of Elizabeth Elliot.

Well, as a young lady, Elizabeth Howard went off to Wheaton College,

and there she studied the classics.

She studied classics because she believed it would best help her for her life's calling to be a missionary and translator of the New Testament.

And while at Wheaton, she met Jim Elliot.

Jim Elliot thought God wanted him to be a bachelor,

but five years later he changed his mind.

Initially they both went to Ecuador single.

She went as Elizabeth Howard and he went as Jim Elliot,

but shortly after they arrived in 1953 in Quito, Ecuador, they were married.

Not too far from the site where they were working there in Ecuador, Nate Saint noticed a settlement on one of his flights and after a few months of

air dropping packages and sending messages, they decided they would go and visit the village in person.

Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, Ed Macaulay, Roger Yodarian, and the pilot,

Nate Saint, all went to visit along the river there in the Amazon jungle.

Well, back at the missionary station, no word was received and people begin to wonder about them

and so they started to search.

And after a long series of time and by this

point become national news and even international news their bodies were

discovered and it was realized that all five of them were killed spirit to death there. bodies were

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