Through Gates of Splendor: 40th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

from lmathews

My favorite leisurely read. If you want to read a book where you are captivated and you can't put it down, read "Through Gates of Splendor"! This book brought me to tears as I read about the price 5 men paid in order to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a group of savage Indians.....their liv...

from sunseteve

Awesome book to read for in-depth detail on the tragic events on this story. Very interesting on how God's calling came full circle with these missionaries lives and family.

from taterzngravy

This is a classic of stories about missions that takes place in Ecuador in 1956.

from seoulful

A moving account of five men with a passion to bring the Gospel to a primitive, unreached tribe in Ecuador and were speared to death as they attempted to make contact. The story is told by Elisabeth Eliot, widow of one of the men who with her little girl went herself a few years later into the ju...

from vnovak

In 1955, 5 young missionaries who were working with other tribes in Ecuador decided to try to reach out to the Auca, a tribe with a deadly reputation. They gradually earned their trust by dropping gifts and pictures by plane. Their first contact with 3 Aucas seemed friendly, but later, all the mi...