Table of Contents
Foreword Joni Eareckson Tada xiii
Part 1 Beginning
Chapter 1 Death in the Afternoon 3
Chapter 2 Discovering the Story 8
Part 2 Becoming
Chapter 3 G. M. T. 19
Chapter 4 At Any Cost 28
Chapter 5 Cutting Diamonds 31
Chapter 6 A Very Small Frog 42
Chapter 7 "Let Me Not Sink to Be a Clod" 48
Chapter 8 A Refrigerated Rose 52
Chapter 9 Eunuch for Christ 60
Chapter 10 Patience in Alberta 67
Chapter 11 "You Made a Universally Horrible Impression …" 72
Chapter 12 Sitting Still 79
Chapter 13 "I Don't Feel Much like a Missionary" 84
Chapter 14 "I Wonder Sometimes If It Is Right to Be So Happy" 90
Chapter 15 The Colorful Colorados 98
Chapter 16 The First Death of Elisabeth Elliot 102
Chapter 17 Finally! 113
Chapter 18 In the Company of Saints 126
Chapter 19 What Might Have Been 129
Chapter 20 Cast of Characters 134
Chapter 21 Countdown to Contact 142
Chapter 22 The Second Death 151
Chapter 23 Christ the Beginning; Christ the End 159
Chapter 24 Through the Gates 165
Chapter 25 A Blank Wall 175
Chapter 26 "The Eyes of the World Are on That Tribe" 182
Chapter 27 "If They Killed Me, Better Still" 190
Chapter 28 A Missionary Hag 195
Chapter 29 "To Hell with My Zeal!" 201
Chapter 30 Child Lives among Her Father's Killers 210
Chapter 31 "Madness, Sheer Madness" 220
Chapter 32 Home but Not Home 227
Chapter 33 In the Pit 234
Chapter 34 Two Women at the End of the World 240
Chapter 35 The Bridges Burn 246
Part 3 Being
Chapter 36 What Happened Next 257
Chapter 37 The Irrelevant Question 259
Chapter 38 The Relevant Question 263
Chapter 39 The Dust and Ashes 265
Chapter 40 The Next Thing 268
Chapter 41 The Problem of Pain 270
Epilogue: A None from the Author 277
With Gratitude 279
Notes 283
Photo Credits 299