Through Gates of Splendour

Mary was standing with her head against the radio, her eyes closed.

After a while she spoke, ‘they found one body?’

Missionary history will never let us forget the five young men savagely martyred by Auca Indians in the jungles of Ecuador as they attempted to reach them with the Word of God.

Elisabeth Elliot records here the story of their courage in the face of extreme danger. 

The challenge of their expendability for God continues as strong today as it was at the time of their deaths in 1956.