Rachel was born to Lawrence Bradford Saint and Katharine Wright Saint nee:Proctor.She was the third of eight children born to this union and the only girl. Her two older brothers were Samuel & Philip and her younger ones were Daniel, David, Stevens, Nathanael and Benjamin.
She was a great help to her mother in raising the boys and by the time Rachel could move on she was almost too old for Missionary work, but Wycliffe Bible Translators accepted Rachel as a translator and sent her to Peru to temporarily replace the translator there who had been working with a head hunting tribe there. On her way back from that assignment she stopped to visit her younger brother Nate and his wife Marjorie who were missionaries stationed in Shell Mera, Ecuador.
While flying over the Amazon Jungle Rachel felt God's call that this is where she should stay sharing the word of God with these natives.
She spent the rest of her life with the Waodani in Ecuador staying until her death from cancer at the age of 80.She was laid to rest in the rich damp soil of Tonampade she wanted to be buried there in the jungle where she had given and received so much love. A hole was dug between her house and the little tin roofed church that had chicken wire windows and chainsawed boards.Her nephew Steve Saint was there for the service which was a simple affair.
Kimo offered an impromptu eulogy:
Waengongi Toado ante odomoncaete ante Nemo pongantapa, which translated means:
Teaching us to walk God's trail, Star came.
Dayumae adopted Rachel, whom the natives all called Star into the tribe and gave her the name "Nemo" after Dayumae's baby sister who had been killed in an ongoing cycle of violence.
Rachel loved these people like her own family even through the deaths of her beloved younger brother Nathanael Saint and his fellow missionaries: Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian, Peter Fleming and Edward McCully Jr. who were killed by the tribe in January of 1956.
This silver haired old woman spent over half of her long life in the wilds of the Amazon Jungle with an egalitarian and once violent stone age people. Always feeling blessed by God to have been given the opportunity to serve these people. In her own words Rachel said "Isn't it something, that the Lord Jesus would have used someone like me to do his work in this special place"
Rachel was also featured on Ralph Edwards "This is your Life"
The purposeful destruction of native peoples and their cultures by well meaning missionaries is a terrible blot upon Humanity, and we hope and pray that all other "untouched" tribes remain untouched and un"helped".
bio roughly put together from many sources by Jeannie
She was a great help to her mother in raising the boys and by the time Rachel could move on she was almost too old for Missionary work, but Wycliffe Bible Translators accepted Rachel as a translator and sent her to Peru to temporarily replace the translator there who had been working with a head hunting tribe there. On her way back from that assignment she stopped to visit her younger brother Nate and his wife Marjorie who were missionaries stationed in Shell Mera, Ecuador.
While flying over the Amazon Jungle Rachel felt God's call that this is where she should stay sharing the word of God with these natives.
She spent the rest of her life with the Waodani in Ecuador staying until her death from cancer at the age of 80.She was laid to rest in the rich damp soil of Tonampade she wanted to be buried there in the jungle where she had given and received so much love. A hole was dug between her house and the little tin roofed church that had chicken wire windows and chainsawed boards.Her nephew Steve Saint was there for the service which was a simple affair.
Kimo offered an impromptu eulogy:
Waengongi Toado ante odomoncaete ante Nemo pongantapa, which translated means:
Teaching us to walk God's trail, Star came.
Dayumae adopted Rachel, whom the natives all called Star into the tribe and gave her the name "Nemo" after Dayumae's baby sister who had been killed in an ongoing cycle of violence.
Rachel loved these people like her own family even through the deaths of her beloved younger brother Nathanael Saint and his fellow missionaries: Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian, Peter Fleming and Edward McCully Jr. who were killed by the tribe in January of 1956.
This silver haired old woman spent over half of her long life in the wilds of the Amazon Jungle with an egalitarian and once violent stone age people. Always feeling blessed by God to have been given the opportunity to serve these people. In her own words Rachel said "Isn't it something, that the Lord Jesus would have used someone like me to do his work in this special place"
Rachel was also featured on Ralph Edwards "This is your Life"
The purposeful destruction of native peoples and their cultures by well meaning missionaries is a terrible blot upon Humanity, and we hope and pray that all other "untouched" tribes remain untouched and un"helped".
bio roughly put together from many sources by Jeannie
Rachel was born to Lawrence Bradford Saint and Katharine Wright Saint nee:Proctor.She was the third of eight children born to this union and the only girl. Her two older brothers were Samuel & Philip and her younger ones were Daniel, David, Stevens, Nathanael and Benjamin.
She was a great help to her mother in raising the boys and by the time Rachel could move on she was almost too old for Missionary work, but Wycliffe Bible Translators accepted Rachel as a translator and sent her to Peru to temporarily replace the translator there who had been working with a head hunting tribe there. On her way back from that assignment she stopped to visit her younger brother Nate and his wife Marjorie who were missionaries stationed in Shell Mera, Ecuador.
While flying over the Amazon Jungle Rachel felt God's call that this is where she should stay sharing the word of God with these natives.
She spent the rest of her life with the Waodani in Ecuador staying until her death from cancer at the age of 80.She was laid to rest in the rich damp soil of Tonampade she wanted to be buried there in the jungle where she had given and received so much love. A hole was dug between her house and the little tin roofed church that had chicken wire windows and chainsawed boards.Her nephew Steve Saint was there for the service which was a simple affair.
Kimo offered an impromptu eulogy:
Waengongi Toado ante odomoncaete ante Nemo pongantapa, which translated means:
Teaching us to walk God's trail, Star came.
Dayumae adopted Rachel, whom the natives all called Star into the tribe and gave her the name "Nemo" after Dayumae's baby sister who had been killed in an ongoing cycle of violence.
Rachel loved these people like her own family even through the deaths of her beloved younger brother Nathanael Saint and his fellow missionaries: Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian, Peter Fleming and Edward McCully Jr. who were killed by the tribe in January of 1956.
This silver haired old woman spent over half of her long life in the wilds of the Amazon Jungle with an egalitarian and once violent stone age people. Always feeling blessed by God to have been given the opportunity to serve these people. In her own words Rachel said "Isn't it something, that the Lord Jesus would have used someone like me to do his work in this special place"
Rachel was also featured on Ralph Edwards "This is your Life"
The purposeful destruction of native peoples and their cultures by well meaning missionaries is a terrible blot upon Humanity, and we hope and pray that all other "untouched" tribes remain untouched and un"helped".
bio roughly put together from many sources by Jeannie
She was a great help to her mother in raising the boys and by the time Rachel could move on she was almost too old for Missionary work, but Wycliffe Bible Translators accepted Rachel as a translator and sent her to Peru to temporarily replace the translator there who had been working with a head hunting tribe there. On her way back from that assignment she stopped to visit her younger brother Nate and his wife Marjorie who were missionaries stationed in Shell Mera, Ecuador.
While flying over the Amazon Jungle Rachel felt God's call that this is where she should stay sharing the word of God with these natives.
She spent the rest of her life with the Waodani in Ecuador staying until her death from cancer at the age of 80.She was laid to rest in the rich damp soil of Tonampade she wanted to be buried there in the jungle where she had given and received so much love. A hole was dug between her house and the little tin roofed church that had chicken wire windows and chainsawed boards.Her nephew Steve Saint was there for the service which was a simple affair.
Kimo offered an impromptu eulogy:
Waengongi Toado ante odomoncaete ante Nemo pongantapa, which translated means:
Teaching us to walk God's trail, Star came.
Dayumae adopted Rachel, whom the natives all called Star into the tribe and gave her the name "Nemo" after Dayumae's baby sister who had been killed in an ongoing cycle of violence.
Rachel loved these people like her own family even through the deaths of her beloved younger brother Nathanael Saint and his fellow missionaries: Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian, Peter Fleming and Edward McCully Jr. who were killed by the tribe in January of 1956.
This silver haired old woman spent over half of her long life in the wilds of the Amazon Jungle with an egalitarian and once violent stone age people. Always feeling blessed by God to have been given the opportunity to serve these people. In her own words Rachel said "Isn't it something, that the Lord Jesus would have used someone like me to do his work in this special place"
Rachel was also featured on Ralph Edwards "This is your Life"
The purposeful destruction of native peoples and their cultures by well meaning missionaries is a terrible blot upon Humanity, and we hope and pray that all other "untouched" tribes remain untouched and un"helped".
bio roughly put together from many sources by Jeannie
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