Elisabeth elliot and rachel saint biography
Elisabeth elliot and rachel saint biography
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A Biography of Rachel Saint
Rachel Saint was an evangelical Christian missionary from the United States who worked in Ecuador.
Rachel Saint was born in Wyncote, Pennsylvania.
She attended the Philadelphia School of the Bible (now Cairn University) and then worked at the Keswick Colony of Mercy in New Jersey.
Early Life
Rachel Saint was sent out by the Wycliffe Bible Translators, trained by Summer Institute of Linguistics (now SIL International).
Her first missionary assignment was to the Piro and Shapra in Peru, but she had an interest in the Huaorani in Ecuador.
In February 1955, she and Catherine Peeke went to a missionary station near Huorani territory, where Rachel Saint's brother was working.
Rachel Saint started learning the Huaorani language with the help of Dayuma, a Huaorani woman who had left her people after a dispute and was sheltered by missionaries.
Life in Ecuador
In January 1956, five missionaries in the area were killed by Huaorani people, including h