Operation Auca .

So I was browsing through the internet ...
Then I found out info about N5156H , or Operation Auca . It was shocking.

Operation Auca was an attempt by five missionaries from the US to preach the gospel to the Huaorani people in the rainforests of Ecuador . The five of them were : Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, and Roger Youderian .

With intentions of being the first to evangelize the previously unreached Huaorani tribe , they started dropping gifts and stuff . One day , the missionaries established a settlement a few miles away from the Huaorani settlement , but their efforts came to an end on January 8th 1956 , when a group of Huoarani warriors attacked them and speared them .

The deaths of the men caused the missionary efforts in the United states to be aroused to awareness .

Nononono , that wasn't the shocking part...this was :

Several years after their deaths , the widow of Jim Elliot , Elisabeth along with the sister of Nate Saint , Rachel (Along with the SIL international) went back to Ecuador to live among the Huaorani . They eventually led to the conversion of many , including some of the warriors who killed the men .


Touching isn't it ?


References : Wikipedia . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Auca