In 1956 Roger Youderian, Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully and pilot Nate Saint launched Operation Auca. The Aucas were one of the most difficult tribes to reach; they didn’t like outsiders and ...

A 1960 update on Elisabeth Elliot and her plan to bring the gospel to the Ecuadorian tribe. Four years ago this week the world learned of the slaying of five young American missionary men at the hands ...

In early 1956, five American evangelical Christian missionaries set up camp along the Curaray River in Ecuador with the hopes of connecting with an indigenous Amazonian community they called the “Auca ...

In 1955, five American missionary couples set out to evangelize the Waorani, an Indigenous people group of the Ecuadorian rainforest that had never had contact with the outside world. They dubbed ...