GREAT COMMISSION KIDS “Hey Kids, Remember …” g KIDS C Issue 32: Five Martyrs They Gave Five Missionary Their Lives Martyrs Why would these men risk their lives to take the Gospel to a tribe who had never heard about Jesus? Because they believed This To get GC Kids in your postal mailbox email verse: [email protected] subject line: “GC Kids subscription” “Jesus died for all, that those who live To purchase multiple copies of GC Kids (minimum 50) order from should no longer live Copy ’n Print, Box 4566, Three Hills AB T0M 2A0, CANADA Ph: 403-443-7041 Fax: 403-443-2120 Email : [email protected] for themselves but for him who died for Price printed, folded and mailed to USA : 50 copies about US$60; Can you imagine loving and living 100 copies about US$125. Please indicate number and title of the issues you them and was raised want (see front page). Contact Copy ’n Print for questions again.” with the people who killed someone in about international shipping. 2 Corinthians 5:15. your family? This is a story of some amazing people who showed Jesus’ love Download and print multiple copies at by forgiving the people that killed the ones us.worldteam.org/content/gc_kids they loved. It all began when missionary Jim Elliot GGGREATREATREAT CCCOMMISSION KIDSKIDSKIDS aims to nurture a love for missions that will and his wife Betty decided to try to contact encourage children to be active in the Great Commission throughout the tribe that people called Auca Indians in their lives. Ecuador, South America. Auca means This quarterly publication is mailed free to individual children or adult “savage” or “enemy,” but their own name leaders of children. To financially contribute to this project or for other for themselves was Waodani. Jim and his matters, Contact the editor at: [email protected] . wife wanted to tell these fierce people about Jesus. GC Kids is a service of World Team : The Waodani were known for killing “God Centered. People Focused.” other people, even their family and friends. 1431 Stuckert Rd, Warrington, PA 18976, USA They did not know that it is wrong to kill Ph. 1 -800 -967 -7109 Fax 215 -491 -4910 us.worldteam.org wt [email protected] Copyright © 2013 others because they did not have God in their lives. The Elliots wanted loved God so much and wanted to help the Indians by teaching to tell these Indians about Him. Think About It them about Jesus. They felt that They left their families and if the Waodani tribe could learn flew to a beach near a Waodani about Jesus’ love and hear village. 1. Have you ever done anything 6. After the Waodani killed the about His message of salvation, Three Waodani Indians, one for God that you were scared to five men, how do you think the they would stop killing people. man and two women, came to do? other missionaries had enough The main problem was how see the missionaries. They courage to go and live among to approach the Waodani seemed friendly and the the Waodani people? without being killed by them. missionaries were so excited to 2. Can you think of dangerous Jim Elliot and four other see them. Nate Saint even gave situations some missionaries missionaries came up with a one of the Waodani Indians a might face? great idea to show the ride in his plane. Waodani that they meant them The missionaries waited two 7. Have you ever felt God might no harm and wanted to become more days and then Nate Saint be calling you to share his love friends with them. They called called his wife on the radio and with a person or people who do their plan Operation not know Him? How did you Auca. respond to that calling? Nate Saint, a 3. In what ways did the missionary pilot, would missionary men try to show love fly his plane over a to the Waodani (Aucas)? Waodani village and lower a bucket filled with supplies and gifts. Suggested reading: At first, the Indians • Through Gates of Splendor: were terrified of the The Five Missionary Martyrs plane. But when they 4. Why do you think the of Ecuador by Elisabeth Elliot discovered that the Waodani were so ferocious at Questionsadapted from resources at www.torchlighters.or bucket held gifts, they became told her that more Waodani first and refused friendship with Video resources: less afraid. Eventually they sent were coming to visit them. the missionaries? • Scan this code or, on gifts back to the missionaries. Sadly, Nate Saint’s wife never YouTube , look up “A They even sent a live parrot! heard from him again. Martyr: Nate Saint” The missionaries kept The Waodani Indians killed for a five minute praying and one day decided it all five of the missionaries. The video that introduces the story and opens with was time to try to meet the missionaries had guns and 5. Do you think the five men should have defended them - Waodani style singing. Waodani face to face. They could have killed the Indians spent time planning where they but they did not want to fight selves with their weapons when • A great five minute lego style would land and what they them. The missionaries they were attacked? Why or why not? video of the whole story was would bring with them. sacrificed themselves so that made by an eleven year old Five missionaries, Jim Elliot, the Waodani Indians would boy. On Y ouTube , “Nate Saint Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Roger have another chance to hear Video Book Report.” Youderian and Pete Fleming God’s word. g Page 2 Page 7 The Great Commission Matthew 28:19-20 and more Acts 20:24 I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task The families of the by the family members of the the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of missionaries were very sad. missionaries they had killed. testifying to the good news of God’s grace. Their loved ones had wanted to They listened to the bring God’s love to the missionaries and many of them Waodani but had been killed by became Christians. them instead. Steve Saint, Nate Saint’s son, Though they were so very grew up and his family lived sad, the families still wanted among the Waodani for a year the Waodani to hear about and truly loved them. What an Jesus. As soon as they could example of Jesus’ love. safely, the widow of Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Pete Fleming, Elisabeth, and the sister of Nate Roger Youderian, Nate Saint Saint, Rachel, returned to and Jim Elliot died serving Ecuador as missionaries to live God. The story of the sacrifice among the Waodani and teach of the five missionaries was them about Jesus. heard around the world and The Waodani remembered inspired many other young about how the missionary men people to become missionaries “And people who do not know the Lord ask had been so kind to them and and tell people about Jesus all had not tried to kill them. They around the world. ■ why in the world we waste our lives as also saw the love shown them (Written by Michelle McNitt.) missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.” —Nate Saint (“God’s carvings” is the Waodani way of saying “The Bible.”) Page 6 Page 3 Use crayons or colored pencils to color this page. Do not use markers because they will bleed through the paper. Page 4 Courtesy of The Torchligters video series. www.torchlighters.org Page 5 .