Elisabeth Elliot 1926 – 2015 I first heard Elisabeth Elliot speak when I was 15 years old. I was captivated by her story of living in the jungles of Ecuador amongst a tribe of Auca Indians who only months earlier had killed her husband Jim Elliot and four other missionaries. Rather than returning home to the USA she and her 10-month-old daughter remained in the jungle, li....

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Recently a friend of mine asked her four-year-old son ‘What does it mean to be poor?’ Her son immediately got down on the ground and began to beg. What struck my friend about this response was not so much that her son knew that being poor in Hong Kong often meant begging but rather what she was teaching her child if she continued to do what most people do when they see a be....

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