1. 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.
12 Facts About Jim Elliot
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Jim Elliot was born in Portland, Oregon, to Fred and Clara Jim Elliot.
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Robert, their first child, was born in 1921 while they were living in Seattle, and he was followed by Herbert, Jim Elliot, and Jane, all three of whom were born after the family moved to Portland.
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Jim Elliot's parents had firm Christian beliefs, and they raised their children accordingly, taking them to church and reading the Bible regularly.
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Jim Elliot professed faith in Jesus at the age of six and grew up in a home where obedience and honesty were enforced.
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The Jim Elliot parents encouraged their children to be adventurous, and encouraged them to "live for Christ".
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In 1941, Jim Elliot entered Benson Polytechnic High School, studying architectural drawing.
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McCully married later that summer, forcing Jim Elliot to look elsewhere for an unmarried man with whom he could begin working in Ecuador.
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Jim Elliot and Fleming arrived in Ecuador on February 21,1952, with the purpose of evangelizing Ecuador's Quechua people.
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Jim Elliot was the first of the five missionaries killed when he and Peter Fleming were greeting two of those attackers.
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Jim Elliot's body was found downstream, along with those of the other men.
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Jim Elliot later published two books, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot and Through Gates of Splendor, which describe the life and death of her husband.