The family wished for her legacy to live on. It was not only a personal loss, but one that affected many who had benefitted from years of engagement through her books, lectures, and radio program. When Elisabeth Elliot died in 2015, her family and widowed husband mourned. Her best-selling book, Through Gates of Splendor, began a writing and speaking career that lasted four decades.įigure 2: Elisabeth Elliot in her home office in Magnolia, Massachusetts, ca. She eventually returned to the United States, becoming an active and vocal advocate for the gospel, for missions, for families, and for women. In the years that followed, Elliot created a writing system for the Waodäni language, advocated for their education, and paved the way for a New Testament translation finished in 1992. This remarkable story rippled across the globe, inspiring millions to serve God through missions.įigure 1: Elisabeth Elliot teaching in Ecuador with Valerie hugging her legs, ca. Her choice to forgive, rather than retaliate, sparked a change in the Waodäni, who left behind a cycle of violence to embrace a life of love. In 1958, Christian missionary Elisabeth Elliot returned to the Ecuadorian rainforest to live with the Waodäni, the tribe who had killed her husband only two years earlier.
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