Nate Saint

One of them was an MAF pilot.

His name was Nate Saint.

And they would fly over this area where they knew that the Wurundjeri people were living.

They dropped presents to them.

Dr. Paul Roberts was the doctor in the hospital in Quito, Ecuador, who made the first press announcement, radio announcement actually, to the world that these men were missing.

and was part of the rescue, attempted rescue, who found their bodies only when she brought them back.

She met his wife, Elizabeth Elliott, and Nate Saint's sister, Rachel Saint, decided to go back to visit these people again.

Two women taking their lives entirely, placing their lives entirely at risk.

I thought it would be exciting to become a missionary pilot, flying missionaries and supplies into remote parts of the, of the world and in remote places.

My dad knew Nate Saint when he was in college, and Nate was, uh, along with several other missionaries, five missionaries, they were killed in Ecuador when I was just a little kid while attempting to make contact with an isolated indigenous tribe.

As a boy growing up in church, I heard their stories.

To me, those men seemed like adventurers who were willing to risk s- uh, everything to serve God.

He did in five and a half years.

We had been married for a little over two years when we got word that Nate Saint, the pilot who served our station, had discovered some inhabited Alka houses.

The Alkas were those savage stone-aged Indians that had never heard the gospel.

No outsider had ever gone into their tribe and come out alive.

Yeah, I think just some of the some of it is just the nature, like the being in the Amazon jungle, flying in to meet the Waurani tribe, flying over the Amazon jungle in a five passenger tiny little airplane.

And then landing in this village of people who are known, if you know the story of Nate Saint and Jim Elliott, the missionaries that were killed by this

tribe.

Landing in their village, and the very first thing they do is they take you up to their church.

And next to him is his wife, Elizabeth Elliott.

Also in the picture are Nate Saint and Ed McCully with their families.

I show these pictures and share this story because these people were real Christians, church.

They were real Christians.

That's why they were doing what they were doing.

And on January 5th, Just days after they set up camp on the fringes of this territory, when they had only just begun to make like the first initial contact with the first people from that village, they were ambushed and attacked by 10 warriors from that tribe wielding spears.

And on January 8th, Jim Elliott, Nate Saint, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, and Roger Udarian were killed.

They were speared to death and their bodies were left in the river to just float downstream.