Religious Figure, Radio Broadcaster. Called by Christianity Today as “one of the most influential Christian women of the 20th century”, she first came to notice as the widow of Jim Elliot, one of five missionaries killed by members of the remote Waorani tribe in eastern Ecuador in 1956. A graduate of Wheaton College, where she met her husband, she returned to that tribe in 1958 with her very young daughter and Rachel Saint, the sister of another of the 5 missionaries. She remained there until 1963 and saw the men who had killed her husband become Christians. She told this story in her 1957 book “Through Gates of Splendor” and wrote her husband’s biography in “Shadow of the Almighty, The Life and Testimony of Jim Elliot”. She is also known for her writings on Christian missions: ”No Graven Image” and “The Savage My Kinsman”. From 1988 to 2001, she was the host of the radio show “Gateway to Joy”. She also taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, was Writer in Residence at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, and was a contributor to the New International Version of the Bible. She was married three times, widowed twice, and suffered from dementia for 10 years before her death.
Religious Figure, Radio Broadcaster. Called by Christianity Today as “one of the most influential Christian women of the 20th century”, she first came to notice as the widow of Jim Elliot, one of five missionaries killed by members of the remote Waorani tribe in eastern Ecuador in 1956. A graduate of Wheaton College, where she met her husband, she returned to that tribe in 1958 with her very young daughter and Rachel Saint, the sister of another of the 5 missionaries. She remained there until 1963 and saw the men who had killed her husband become Christians. She told this story in her 1957 book “Through Gates of Splendor” and wrote her husband’s biography in “Shadow of the Almighty, The Life and Testimony of Jim Elliot”. She is also known for her writings on Christian missions: ”No Graven Image” and “The Savage My Kinsman”. From 1988 to 2001, she was the host of the radio show “Gateway to Joy”. She also taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, was Writer in Residence at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, and was a contributor to the New International Version of the Bible. She was married three times, widowed twice, and suffered from dementia for 10 years before her death.
Bio by: Kenneth Gilbert
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