The End of the Spear

Like most of the Baptist kids I grew up with, being a missionary was the ultimate calling, and the one you had to explain not doing before you could consider any other career.  We read Through Gates of Splendor and Jungle Pilot and imagined a life in the jungle with Wycliffe. 

 

[Izzy and I spend quite a few years expecting to be part of SIL before God slammed the door for us.  Took several closings before we got the message.]

 

Looking forward to a new movie coming out this month: The End of the Spear.  (Be patient; their website may take a bit to load.)  I also found a blog collection by the son of Nate Saint, one of the missionaries killed in the Amazon jungle by tribesmen who were later converted to Christianity by the witness of the widows and children of these men.

 

It turns out that January 8 will be the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Peter Fleming, Ed McCully and Roger Youderian.  I'm looking forward to seeing the movie--hoping it will focus on mercy and forgiveness, rather than on murder.  More once it opens.