Elisabeth Elliot | CLV | 224 pages | €6.90
America, 1956 – God is preparing five young men for a special missionary service. They are to become God's ambassadors among the wild, uncivilized Auca Indians in Ecuador. Five young men who, despite their academic training, decide to sacrifice everything for God.
Together with their wives and children, the missionaries live in very simple conditions and establish several mission stations. Through oral communication, they learn the Auca language and gradually translate passages of the Bible. After months of planning, the men finally decide to venture directly into the still almost untouched territory of the Auca Indians. One after another, Jim Elliot and his friends are flown deep into the jungle. They spend several days there, waiting for an encounter with the Indians. Every day they send radio messages to their wives and write in their journals, in which they report on their first friendly encounters with three Auca people. But from the fifth day onward, radio contact is lost…
The missionary's wife, Elisabeth Elliot, vividly recounts this true story through diary entries and letters. I was deeply moved by how God called these young missionaries into service, closing some doors for them and opening far better ones. Living faith encourages us to carry out God's work with greater devotion and reveals a strength found only in complete union with God's will.
Azelia Hohenäcker,
Municipality of Bremen-North