The Auca/Huaorani gave Elisabeth the tribal name Gikari, Huao for 'woodpecker'. Elliot went to live with the Huaorani with her three-year-old daughter Valerie and with Rachel Saint. When Dayuma returned to the Huaorani, she created an opening for contact by the missionaries.
Elliot and fellow missionary Rachel Saint. Two Huaorani women living among the Quichua, including one named Dayuma, taught the Huao language to Mrs. Elisabeth continued her work with the Quechua for two more years. Their daughter, Valerie (born February 27, 1955), was 10 months old when her father was killed. In January 1956, her husband Jim was speared to death along with four of his missionary friends while attempting to contact the Huaorani tribe. Jim Elliot and Elisabeth Howard went individually to Ecuador to work with the Quichua (or Quechua) Indians the two eventually married in 1953 in the city of Quito, Ecuador. Before their marriage, Elisabeth took a post-graduate year of specialized studies at Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, Canada, where a campus prayer chapel was later named in her honor. It was at Wheaton where she met Jim Elliot. She studied Classical Greek at Wheaton College, believing that it was the best tool to help her with the calling of ultimately translating the New Testament of the Bible into an unknown language.
In addition to Philadelphia, she lived in Franconia, New Hampshire and Moorestown, New Jersey. Her family moved to the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the U.S. Elisabeth's brothers, Thomas Howard and David Howard, are also authors. Biography Įlisabeth Elliot was born Elisabeth Howard in Brussels, Belgium, on Decemher family included her missionary parents, four brothers, and one sister. Elliot toured the country, sharing her knowledge and experience, well into her seventies. Returning to the United States after many years in South America, she became widely known as the author of over twenty books and as a speaker. She later spent two years as a missionary to the tribe members who killed her husband. Her first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca people (now known as Huaorani also rendered as Waorani or Waodani) of eastern Ecuador. Elisabeth Elliot (née Howard Decem– June 15, 2015) was a Christian author and speaker.
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