On January 8, 1956 five missionaries were murdered in Ecuador: Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Roger Youderian and Pete Fleming.

A new and really outstanding 40-minute documentary, Beyond the Gates of Splendor, has interviews with a number of the tribespeople who were there, and with all five of the widows. It was filmed just in time since Marylou McCully (wife of Ed McCully) and Marj Saint (wife of Nate Saint) have gone home with the Lord in the last one and a half years, and Elisabeth Elliot is no longer in condition to give an interview.

The major movie to be released in theaters January 20, is called End of the Spear. Randy Alcorn has read and endorsed a book of the same title written by Steve Saint (Nate Saint's son). It's fascinating, filling in the gaps in the original story and also telling the incredible story that's happened since then, in which many of the tribe that killed the missionaries have come to Christ.

The following pictures are a collection from the original event in 1956, the documentary (Beyond the Gates of Splendor), the movie (End of the Spear), and the lives of the families since 1956.

50 Years Later: January, 2006 at Jim Elliot's home in Portland, Oregon

 Mincaye, Steve Saint, Jim's brother Herb and his wife Colleen, Steve McCully in Jim Elliot's bedroom   

 Randy and Nanci Alcorn, Ginny Saint, Mincaye, Steve Saint

Mincaye 

 Group shot in the Elliot's backyard

 Alcorns and McCullys in Jim Elliot's bedroom

 Elliot home, January 2006, 50 years later

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