She was survived by her third husband (Lars), her daughter (Valerie), and her son-in-law (Walter), and eight grandkids. She died on Jat the age of 88 in Magnolia, Massachusetts.
“Through Gates of Splendor” was the inspiration for the 2006 hit movie “End of the Spear”. Over the years, she and her husband Lars quit traveling, however still kept in touch with the public through their website and through email. Almost always, she opened the program by telling her listeners they were loved with an everlasting love and underneath are everlasting arms.’ Today re-runs of the show can be listened to over the Bible Broadcasting Network. She hosted a daily radio show called Gateway to Joy from 1988 until 2001, which was produced by the Good News Broadcasting Association of Lincoln, Nebraska. She became adjunct professor on the faculty of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in the fall of 1974 and for multiple years she taught a popular course called “Christian Expression”.ĭuring the mid-seventies she served as a stylistic consultant for the committee of the New International Version of the Bible (NIV).Įlliot was appointed writer-in-residence at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts in the year 1981. Lars was a hospital chaplain that later worked and traveled around together.
One, named Lars Gren, who she married in the year 1977 and the other married Valerie. After Addison’s death, she had two lodgers in her home.
It included, in the year 1969, a marriage to Addison Leitch, professor of theology at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts. After this, she went back to the Quicha work and stayed there until the year 1963 when she and Valerie came back to America (Franconia, New Hampshire).Īfter that, her life was made up of speaking and writing. She was given, by the Auca/Huaorani, the tribal name of Gikari, which Huao for “Woodpecker”. When Dayuma went back to the Huaoroni, she made an opening for contact by these missionaries. One woman, named Dayuma, taught Elisabeth and Rachel Saint (a fellow missionary) the Huao language.
They were the key in her going to live with the tribe that killed the five missionaries.Įlisabeth stayed there for two years. She continued working with the Quichua Indians, and through a remarkable coincidence, met a couple of Auca women that lived with her for a year. Jim and Elisabeth’s daughter, Valerie, was only ten months old when Jim was killed in 1956. After one friendly contact with three members of the Auca tribe, they were all speared to death. After finding out where they were, Jim and some other missionaries entered into the Auca territory. The Aucas were in this category, a fierce group that nobody had succeeded in meeting without getting killed. Jim always hoped to have the chance to go into the territory of an unreached tribe. On February 27, 1955, they had a daughter named Valerie.
The couple was married in 1953 in the city of Quito and continued working with each other. One year after Elisabeth went to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, whom she met while attending Wheaton also entered tribal areas with the Quichua Indians. She studied classical Greek which would later enable her to work in the field of unwritten languages in order to develop one form of writing.īefore her first marriage, Elisabeth took a post-grad year of specialized studies at Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, Canada, where one campus prayer chapel was named in her honor. Two of her brothers (Thomas Howard and David Howard) are authors as well. By this point, the family had increased to include a sister and four brothers. When she was a few months old, they came over to America and lived in Germantown, which isn’t too far from Philadelphia, where her dad became one of the editors of the Sunday School Times.Įlisabeth’s family continued to live in the city of Philadelphia before moving to New Jersey until she left home in order to attend Wheaton College. Her parents were missionaries in Belgium where she was born. Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim ElliotĮlisabeth Elliot was a Christian speaker and author and was born in Brussels, Belgium on December 21, 1926.