Stray Thoughts
It was the first week of January, , that Operation Auca finally began to come to fruition for five missionary couples in Ecuador: Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, Roger and Barbara Youderian, Nate and Marj Saint, Ed and Marilou McCully, and Pete and Olive Fleming. On January 8, one of the men radioed the wives back at their stations, &#;Pray, girls: today&#;s the day!&#; On this date, January 9, the scheduled radio contact did not come and a missionary friend flew over the area where the men had been camped and saw their airplane stripped of fabric but saw no one. It was two days later that the first bodies were found. The men had been speared to death on January 8.
I can only imagine what it was like for those five women to go through those days with hope but no word and then to finally learn that their husband were gone and they were alone thousands of miles from home.
Yet, as many of you know, God used this incident to greatly impact both the Aucas (now know as Waodani or Huaorani) and the rest of the world. Later Rachel Saint (sister to Nate) and Elisabeth Elliot and her daughter Valerie were invited to come and live with the Aucas, and eventually many of them
A single image in Matt McCully's photo album speaks volumes about his July trip to Ecuador.
In the posed, 4-byinch picture the Puget Sound graduate stands with his arm around Mincaye, one of the now-aging Waodani warriors who killed McCully's father and four other young missionaries in
Both men, whose lives were forever changed by the massacre, are smiling.
The death of the missionaries&#;Ed McCully, Jim Elliot, Peter Fleming, Nate Saint, and Roger Youderian&#;made the cover of Life magazine and captured headlines around the world. In the annals of mission history, few modern events are as memorable and recognizable to Christians.
&#;Throughout my life, many people from my parents&#; generation and my grandparents&#; generation have told me that they vividly remember when it happened,&#; Matt says. &#;And many of them say it had a great impact on their lives.&#;
Answering the call
Matt&#;s father, Ed, had been a track and football star at Wheaton College in Illinois , was president of his senior class, and winner of a national oratory conte
Ed and Marilou McCully Papers
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Journal, correspondence, manuscript, audio tapes, photographs and other materials relating to the life and ministry of Ed and Marilou McCully, Plymouth Brethren Missionaries in Ecuador. The materials document Ed Mc Cully's education (including at Wheaton College), successes in oratorical competition, courtship of Marilou Hobolth, their work in Ecuador as Plymouth Brethren missionaries, his death at the hands of Waorani tribespeople, and Marilou McCully’s subsequent involvement in documenting the story of Ed’s life and faith.
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Audio recording T22 is closed to use until January 1,
Biographical or Historical Information
Full Name: Mc Cully, Marilou G. Hobolth
Birth: April 18,
Death: April 24, in Sumner, Washington State, after a long battle with cancer
Family:
Marital Status: To Theophilus Edward Ed” Mc Cully Jr. on June 29,
Children: Steve (), Mike (), Matt ()
Education:
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Career:
- Missionary in Ecuador with Christian Missions in Many Lands. Arrived in Decemb
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Cornell Capa. Professional photojournalist on assignment for Life magazine. His photos and coverage played a very large part in the international telling of the Waorani/missionary story.
Bill Cathers. Wheaton graduate (class of ) who, with Jim Elliot and Ed McCully, broadcast the evangelistic radio program The March of Truth from Chester, Illinois in
Dawa. Waorani woman, wife of Kimo. Assisted Elisabeth Elliot with Wao language learning.
Herbert Elliot. Jim Elliot’s brother, who was a Plymouth Brethren missionary for 50 years in Peru.
Kenneth Fleming. Brother of Peter Fleming and missionary to the Zulu people in South Africa, later a professor at Emmaus Bible Institute in Iowa.
Olive Fleming. Wife of Peter Fleming and Plymouth Brethren missionary to Ecuador. Eventually returned to the United States. Later married to Walter Liefeld.
Gikita. Waorani man, leader of the group that killed the missionaries on Palm Beach. He later became a Christian and a leader in the Waorani church.
Gimari. Young Waorani woman, sister of Nampa and Dayuma, who was one o
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