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Suspicion, hatred and killing was what marked the Shuar and Atshuar Indians. The first missionaries in the Ecuadorian Rainforest Frank & Marie were committed to bringing about life changes in these tribes by seeking to communicate forgiveness of sin and new life which could be found in Christ. Frank and Marie Drown prepared the way for Jim Elliott, Nate Saint and their colleagues. Frank was the person who discovered their bodies.… (más)
Frank and Marie were missionaries in Ecuador for thirtyseven years. During that time they saw huge changes as they reached the Indians with the Gospel. This is their remarkable story.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To 94-year-old Mrs. Mary Olson, pioneer missionary of the Gospel Missionary Union to the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador,
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[Preface] As a newly arrived missionary in the eastern jungle of Ecuador, I soon heard the names of Frank and Marie Drown.
As the plane droned over the jungle of the Oriente in eastern Ecuador, taking me back to rejoin Marie in the coastal city of Guayaquil, my mind was a tumbling kaleidoscope of vivid new impressions.
[Epilogue] Like the 'sower of good seed' that Jesus talked about, Shuar and Atshuar are scattering the Word of God throughout the southeastern jungle of Ecuador as far as the Peruvian border.
[Forward (1st Edition)] Back in their Bible school days in Minneapolis and Chicago, two young missionaries-to-be--Frank Drown. an Iowa fram boy, and Marie Page, a small-town girl from Berkley, Michigan--caught the vision of planting an indigenous church in a primitive tribe: a church that would be self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating.
[Preface (1st Edition)] "The Jivaros are such a lively, fascinating people we ought to write a bok about them," we said to each other when we first moved to Ecuador's jungles in 1946.
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[Preface] Ponder, then, conditions of discipleship which Jesus laid down: 1) If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself, and, 2) take up his cross, and, 3) follow.
[Epilogue] Present-day believers are living as brothers and sisters in God's family, and the tribe as a whole is no longer known for being revengeful headhunters.
[Foreword (1st Edition)] They are one link in a long line of missinaries who have faithfully given themselves as "living sacrifices" to make Christ known in the dark places of the earth.
Suspicion, hatred and killing was what marked the Shuar and Atshuar Indians. The first missionaries in the Ecuadorian Rainforest Frank & Marie were committed to bringing about life changes in these tribes by seeking to communicate forgiveness of sin and new life which could be found in Christ. Frank and Marie Drown prepared the way for Jim Elliott, Nate Saint and their colleagues. Frank was the person who discovered their bodies.
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