A missionary who died for his

work.

• Jim Was born in Portland, Oregon

• Parents: Fred and Clara Elliot

• Jim always wanted to be a missionary when he was

younger

Portland, Oregon

• Jim went to Wheaton college in Illinois

• He met some of his later to be co-workers in Ecuador at

that college

Wheaton, Illinois

• Jim went to Camp Wycliffe

• That was one of the first times he heard of the Quechua

people

• He knew from there he was going to Ecuador and to the

quechua people

• Jim had a hard time finding a good person to go with

him. Finally he found an old friend of his, Pete Fleming

Jim and Pete

• Jim and Pete had to stay in Quito for 5 months

• Jim’s good friend Betty comes to Quito

• Jim and Pete strive to learn the language fast

Betty Howard

• They had no airstrip in Shandia, so they had to hire some

men to make one.

• Once made Nate Saint could come in to give them food.

• They also had to learn to eat new foods.

• Everyday they would radio to Marj saint.

Nate Saint and his yellow

plane.

• In there first few months there Jim was “doctor”.

• He had a small child die in his hands.

• The quechua people were happy mourners.

• Jim gets a letter from his friend Ed that he is coming to

help Jim with his ministry.

Ed McCully

• Jim and Betty are married in 1953

Jim and Betty Elliot

• They start construction on Ed McCully’s house

• Towards the end of construction Hard rain starts.

• The river starts to carve out Shandia.

• The river makes them almost lose there only source of

electricity. Their generator.

The Napo River

• They have to take apart the McCully's house

• Jim and Pete get everything out of their house just before

the house goes over into the river.

• Jim losses about a year amount of work.

Map of where Shandia is.

• Help come to reconstruct Shandia

• They go to find a possible new base

• They run into a nice place and one of the older men asks

them to come back and start a school.

• They make a base at Puyupungu

The school in Puyupungu

• Aucas and Quechuas didn’t get along one bit.

• Operation Auca starts

A group of Auca kids

• They start dropping gifts to the Aucas

• They receive them with joy.

• They start searching for a place to land so they can talk

to the Aucas

Diagram of the plan to drop gifts

• They make contact with several Aucas

• They give a man a ride in the plane

• It looked so far so good.

Nate with a Auca

• January 8, 1956 at 3:10pm

• Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming, and

Rodger Youderian all were speared by the Aucas.

All the men involved in

operation Auca