God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador

In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women—the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another—with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the Waorani quickly became the defining missiona...