He was one of four children born to a Plymouth Brethren evangelist and his wife, a chiropractor. He enrolled at Wheaton College in Illinois in 1945.
Jim was a leader in the school’s missionary league that's where he met and courted Elizabeth Howard. The daughter of missionaries to Belgium. They both attended Wycliffe Bible Translators’ School for Summer Linguistics. He began working among the Quichua Indians of Ecuador.
In 1953, he married Elizabeth and continued work in Ecuador.In 1953 Jim and Elisabeth married and continued his work in Ecuador. In September 1955 a friend from Missionary Aviation Fellowship spotted a tiny Huaoroni Indian settlement in the jungle.
The Huaoroni,“unreached” …show more content…
He didn't shoot the Indian tribe when he had a gun. If he shot them he would have probably lived but he didn't. All they wanted to do was bring them to Christ and later on that's what they did.
Nate Saint was born on August 30,1923, in Pennsylvania. He was born to Lawrence and Katherine Saint and the 7th of 8 children. Lawrence was an artist and a designer of stained glass. He directed and oversaw the stained glass work at the Washington Cathedral. He was known for his work.
In 1936, when Nate was 13 he made his public profession of faith. He attended Percy Crawford's Pinebrook camp in the Pocono Mountains. Later in the year he would gave a talk to a youth meeting that attested to his strong, developing faith.
His faith was so strong that he eventually chose church attendance over his certain ability to make the basketball team.
When Nate was 18, he took his first flying lesson. By that time he was employed by the Flying Dutchman Air Service. His brother Sam was an American Airlines pilot. Sam helped Nate get an apprenticeship at LaGuardia Airport as a mechanic for American