Today we consider the little bird who is not overlooked.

Welcome, it's another look into the life and message of Elizabeth Alliant.

She called us to live to a higher standard each day.

To not be satisfied with just a little empty religion in life

as a shallow substitute for giving God our best. Our series continues

as we hear from family, friends, and others in the coming weeks, all influenced

by Elizabeth's life and message.

Hey, thanks for joining us again today.

We are continuing our series as I is on the sparrow. We'll have part 9 in that series and part 10 will be a

question and answer session. We'll think about the language of the Indians, about the theory that outsiders were cannibals,

about marriage and more.

Joining us as we think about the Indians of Ecuador, Amy Van Dyke, lead curator at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.

Also Steve McColy, son of Ed, who was one of the five missionaries killed, he acknowledges

that fewer and fewer people remember the story of those martyrs.

First though, his eye is on the Sparrow Part 9,

as we think about the language of the Alka people,

about how easy it is to pick up the language if you're really young and about the danger of cannibals.

Several years after the five men were killed in Ecuador, I was living with those Indians.

They were called Aukas in those days, AUCA. They're now called Wawdani. And of course they spoke a very strange language that nobody from the outside had ever learned and it was a horrible job trying to learn a language when you have no teachers and no books and no

interpreters because there was nobody that spoke the language that spoke any

language that I knew and so you just have to try to learn it the way a baby

learns it but we have completely lost the ability

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