She wrote more than 20 books on topics like courtship, womanhood, suffering, loneliness, and trusting and obeying God. She grew up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and attended Wheaton College in Illinois, where she met Jim Elliot. She was a woman of prayer.”Įlliot was born in 1926 to parents who were missionaries to Belgium. Shepard described her mother as a “speaker of the truth, a teacher of obedience, a woman of strength and dignity. “While it is perfectly true that some of my worst fears did, in fact, materialize, I see them now as ‘an abyss and mass of mercies,’ appointed and assigned by a loving and merciful Father who sees the end from the beginning. “God never withholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good,” Elliot later wrote. That marriage was also brief: Leitch died from cancer four years later.
Today, Christians from among the Aucas trace a spiritual heritage to the five martyrs and subsequent missionary work of Elliot and others.Īfter returning to the United States permanently in 1963, Elliot married Addison Leitch. Elliot also worked among the Quichua Indians. Not to be deterred from the mission she had joined her husband to fulfill, Elliot continued working to reach Ecuadorian tribes, eventually moving with her 3-year-old daughter and Nate Saint’s sister to live among the Aucas and decipher their language. The Elliots had celebrated their two-year anniversary just three months before. In 1956, Auca tribe members speared to death Jim, Nate Saint, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, and Roger Youderian on a riverbank two days after the men made an initial friendly contact. Another of Elliot’s popular works, Passion and Purity, described her five-year courtship with Jim.
Elliot had suffered from dementia for about a decade, and recently experienced a series of ministrokes.Įlliot became well-known after publishing, in 1957, Through Gates of Splendor, about her husband Jim Elliot’s attempt to take the gospel to an unreached tribe of Auca Indians (now known as the Waodani or Huaorani) in the jungles of Ecuador. She was 88.Įlliot’s daughter, Valerie Elliot Shepard, said her mother was asleep when she died in the Gloucester, Mass., home Elliot shared with her third husband, Lars Gren.
Elisabeth Elliot, the best-selling Christian author and widow of martyred missionary Jim Elliot, died Monday morning.
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