NCONCO Monthly News May 2013 “This is the day on which we have the 1.) There are at least 300 different species of welcome opportunity to pay special tribute to “He is no fool who gives what he bumblebees! cannot keep to gain what he cannot the men and women of the Armed Forces...to 2.) Bumblebees make honey pots from wax all the individuals who are in the service of lose.” pressed out from between their abdominal their country all over the world. Armed Forces segments. Day won't be a matter of parades and The life and death of Jim 3.) Bumblebees use a process called "buzz preparations for a good many of them. They Elliot was a testimony of a man pollination" to extract pollen from flowers that will all be in the line of duty and some of them committed to the will of God. He are tightly packed with it. This process involves may give their lives in that duty” sought God’s will, pleaded for it, vibrating their flight muscles, creating a loud “God always gives His best to those ~New York Times waited for it, and—most buzzing sound as they curl their bodies around importantly—obeyed it. who leave the choice with him.” the flower. The noise emanating from the bee, vibrates the flower and shakes the pollen out. His martyrdom at age twenty- 4.) During the summer months, bees hover at the Birthdays & Special Events In: eight and subsequent books on his top of the nest and vibrate their wings (much like life by his former wife, Elisabeth “I may no longer depend on pleasant a ceiling fan) to circulate the air and keep the nest Elliot, have been the catalyst for impulses to bring me before the nice and cool. sending thousands into the Lord. I must rather respond to 5.) Bumblebees hibernate underground. May 3rd – May 5h – Pastor in Lviv, principles I know to be right, 6.) Since a bumblebee's body is naturally cool, Ukraine they cannot become airborne until their bodies th st whether I feel them to be enjoyable become warm. May 19 – May 21 – Pastor in West or not.” 7.) Bumblebees do not have ears. Monroe, LA 11th – Shannon McNamara “Most laws condemn the soul and 18th – Armed Forces Day 8.) Bumblebees make their homes in abandoned pronounce sentence. The result of nests (such as a bird or mouse nest). 22nd – Elizabeth Santiago the law of my God is perfect. It 9.) Bumblebees can lay six to ten eggs at one th condemns but forgives. It restores - sitting. 24 Howard Sandres more than abundantly - what it takes 10.) Excluding Arctic regions, bumblebees are 27th – Memorial Day found throughout the world. mission fields and stoking the away. fires of a heart for God. He was an intense Christian, bent on pleasing God the Santa Juana, for the jungles of South Aucas had killed all strangers for centuries. waiting on God for His timing. alone and not man. America. 'Other Indians fear them but the The Elliot's waited five years [He makes] His ministers a flame of Focused On Obedience were determined to reach them,” said Elliot: before sensing God’s time was ripe for a marital union. fire," Elliot wrote while a student at Elliot’s focus on obedience to God’s ‘Our orders are: the Gospel to every Wheaton College. "Am I ignitable? God will led to a disciplined and slightly creature'.” Draw near to God. Confess deliver me from the dread asbestos of unorthodox courtship of Betty Howard, and repent of sin. Put your heart ‘other things.’ Saturate me with the oil of whom he met at Wheaton. They longed to The Good Will Of God and spirit in neutral, telling God the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame be husband and wife, but Elliot would not Elliot wanted God’s will. It ended in his you wish only to be an is transient, often short-lived. Canst thou agree to the marriage yoke until he was death, but it was a death whose seed still instrument in His hands. Wait for bear this my soul—short life? In me there certain of God’s plan. brings forth fruit for the gospel’s sake. His response through dwells the spirit of the Great Short-Lived, circumstance, His Word, or the whose zeal for God’s house consumed Elisabeth and Jim both were called to Many Aucas eventually came to accept counsel of other mature Him.” as missionaries. Almost one year Christ as Savior when believers. He will show you what after arriving, they were finally engaged. bravely returned to share Christ with those He wants you to do because He Elliot was a gifted writer, speaker, and On October 8, 1953, they were married in a who killed her husband. Her books, Shadow loves you. civil ceremony in Quito, Ecuador. of the Almighty and Through Gates of teacher. He had a commanding presence You can live "to the hilt" as while a student at Wheaton, even starring After their wedding, Elliot continued his Splendor, speak passionately of the power, majesty, and sovereignty of God while you seek and obey the good and on the wrestling mat where he became a work among the Quichua Indians and acceptable will of God. champion. formulated plans to reach the Aucas. chronicling the life of her husband. You may or may not be called to the , Ed McCully, Many of his friends were convinced that In the Autumn of 1955, pilot , and , Elliot’s spiritual giftedness should be Nate Saint spotted an Auca village. During mission field, but each Christian is called to the delightful adventure of knowing and were killed along with concentrated on building up the church in the ensuing months, Elliot and several in 1956, while serving the Lord in America. fellow missionaries dropped gifts from a doing the will of God. This is the thrill of the Christian life – to experience God at the the jungles of Ecuador. Elliot, however, wanted God’s will, not plane, attempting to befriend the hostile center of all you do, think, and say. Copyright 2009 - man’s. After many protracted and solitary tribe. prayer sessions, Elliot sensed God’s call to In January of 1956, Elliot and four Are you seeking God’s will for your AmazingChrist.org a foreign field, specifically South America. companions landed on a beach of the life? It is the root of all blessings – for your "Why should some hear twice," he said, in eastern Ecuador. They family, your finances, your work, your "when others have not heard [the gospel] had several friendly contacts with the fierce relationships, your service, your life. God’s once?" tribe that had previously killed several will is His best. Correspondence with a former Shell Oil company employees. The process is not always easy, but God missionary to Ecuador and hearing of a Two days later, on January 8, 1956, all is willing to reveal His plan to those men and tribe—the Aucas—that was never reached five men were speared and hacked to death women who desire Him above all else and with the news of Christ’s redemption set by warriors from the Auca tribe. delight in Him. It means setting aside your his course. agenda and asking God to "will and to work "They learned about the Aucas as they for His good pleasure" (Philippians 2:13). In the winter of 1952, Elliot and a friend and their wives were ministering to the who shared his vision set sail on a freighter, Quichua-speaking and Jivaro Indians. The There is usually a season of sifting, of