As she wrote the biography of Elizabeth Elliott, Ellen Vaughn learned lessons for her own life.

How do any of us weather the things that life brings our way?

God is writing our story.

What I have found is the reality of I can put my faith in Jesus.

God is who He says He is, and my trust is in him.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgermouth, co-author of You Can Trust

God to Write Your Story. For Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Well, this Reviver Hearts enters its 20th year of ministry. Can you believe it? I almost can't.

It's been a joy to celebrate the life of a woman who had a significant part in what became Revive Our Hearts because of her influence in my life and how when Elizabeth

Elliott and Gateway to Joy came to a close in God's Providence, Revive Our Hearts, stepped into that place and began to

minister to women as Elizabeth Elliott had done so effectively for many years. So I know that many of our

listeners grew up on Elizabeth Elliott. They grew up attending her conferences, reading her books,

as I did, listening to Gateway to Joy, her daily radio program that she did in the later years of her life.

But it's been a joy this week to talk with the biographer of Elizabeth Elliott on the early years,

becoming Elizabeth Elliott, is the title of this newly released authorized biography. And Ellen Vaughn,

you're precious, amazing. I look at this book and I think all the interviews you did,

the journal entries and letters that you've read, you're a true researcher, you went into the

jungles of the Amazon in like a detective

tracking down what is now many decades ago, the early years of Elizabeth Elliott,

and you've made her life so fresh for those of us who've been familiar with her for many years. And I think so important

for the sharing of her life with a new generation, many of whom, maybe most of whom, have no

clue who Elizabeth Elliott was. I think it's really important we preserve the story, not for the

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