On January 8, 1956, five missionaries were killed in the jungles of Ecuador.

Now 60 years later, one of their sons recalls how he grappled with his father's death at the age of five.

Here's Steve Saint.

I just thought, this is total nonsense. Of course my dad is coming back.

I love my dad. My dad loves me. Dad always comes back.

And then my mom, when I asked her why, why she was saying that he wasn't coming back?

She said that he had gone to live with Jesus. And that, of course, made a big difference to me. That was exciting.

But then I thought, well, why didn't he come and get us and take us with him?

Yeah. that was exciting, but then I thought, well, why didn't he come and get us and take us with him? This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, January 8th, 2016.

Jim Elliott, Nate St. Pete Fleming, Ed McCulley, and Roger Eudarian were speared to death by the people they were trying to reach with the gospel.

But as we'll hear today from Nate's son, Steve, that was far from the end of the story.

That's right. After the deaths of the five missionaries, Nate St. Sister, Rachel, along with Elizabeth

Elliott, went back to the Wal-Dani people to teach them the ways of the Creator. It's truly

an amazing story. We'll hear that story from Steve St. Saint, son of martyred pilot Nate St.

And we'll also hear from Valerie Elliott Shepard, daughter of martyred missionary Jim

Elliott.

Her mom is Elizabeth Elliott, who went home to be with the Lord last year.

Here's Nancy talking with Steve St.

Steve, as we get started here, tell us first of all from your perspective, Steve, what in the world motivated these five couples to go to this remote jungle territory in the first place?

I think really the bottom line was that, like all of us, they were searching for significance in their lives,

and they really believed that the way to find significance was to do what God wanted them to do,

and they took their cues from the Bible.

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