Jim Elliot
Philip James Elliot was an American Christian missionary and one of five people killed during Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador.
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Background
- Born in
- Portland
- Educated at
- Wheaton CollegeBenson Polytechnic High School
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Trending topics shown first"Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me."
"No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the…"
"He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose."
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Timeline
1926
Born
Birth1956
Died
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