I am sure that many have benefited from life and writings of Elisabeth Elliot. I heard some time ago that she was suffering from dementia - so it is a joy to hear that she has now gone "Through Gates of Splendour" and is with the Lord.
Evangelical Times
Elisabeth Elliot went to be with the Lord on Monday 15 June
after suffering for 10 years with dementia.
She was born in Belgium to missionary parents. The family
moved to the U.S. when she was just a few months old.
She met the man who was to be her husband at Wheaton College
while they both studied Classical Greek. Already they both had in mind that
they wanted to use their studies to help them translate the New Testament into
new languages.
They went separately to Ecuador to work with the Quichua
Indians and married there in 1953.
While working with the Quichua Indians Jim was preparing to
reach the Huaoroni tribe. Known as the ‘Auca’ meaning savage, they had a
fearsome reputation for violence and hostility to outsiders.
Elisabeth’s husband Jim was killed along with the other
members of the team when they set up a missionary base near the Huaoroni tribes.
Elisabeth remained in Ecuador helping with the work of the
mission and eventually met two Huaoronic women. One of these, a lady known as
Dayuma, taught her the Huaoroni language. When Dayuma returned to her people
this seemed to open a door of opportunity for Elisabeth and her associate
Rachel Saint (sister of Nate Saint, one of Jim Elliot’s companions who was also
killed) to move as missionaries to the Huaoroni tribe.
In October 1958 Elisabeth went with her three-year-old
daughter and Rachel Saint to live with the Huaoroni tribe.
Elisabeth Elliot has written of her husband’s missionary
work in Shadow of the Almighty and Through Gates of Splendour.
Elisabeth Elliot died on 15 June 2015, at the age of 88.
Steve Saint, the son of Nate who was killed alongside Elliot's first husband
Jim, has posted on Facebook about 'the loss of her mind to dementia' and 'her
ten-year battle with the disease which robbed her of her greatest gift'.
Elisabeth Elliot:
Suffering Is Never for Nothing – Posted by Ligonier Ministries
Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) was a Christian author and
speaker. She, having lived through great loss, taught on God's grace in the
midst of hardship, as well as teaching wives and mothers to fulfill the high
calling of Titus 2.
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