Sunday was the 56th anniversary of the martyrdom of the missionaries in Ecuador: Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Peter Fleming, Ed McCully, and Rodger Youderian. If you head over to Challies.com you'll find some links that tell the story.
It has me thinking: granted, they didn't know they would die, but even then they were giving up a comfortable life, familiarity, convenience...the American dream... to bring God's word to people who would otherwise have no way to know Him. And after their deaths, Jim's wife and small daughter and Nate's sister headed into the jungle to live with and minister to the people who had killed the men.
The video at the bottom also talks about Eric Liddel. Eric was an Olympic athlete who went to China as a missionary. Despite the dangers, he stayed and eventually died there.
It just leaves me thinking.
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