These Men Entered The Rainforest To Convert A Native Tribe, But They Never Came Out

In 1950, an Evangelical Christian missionary named Jim Elliot heard about a native tribe of people in Ecuador and believed that God was calling him to convert them. The Huaorani people lived in the Amazon rainforest and were known for their violence towards outsiders as well as those within their isolated tribe. Elliot and four other men thought they could make peaceful contact with them, so they began studying the Huaorani culture and language before flying out from the U.S. to meet them. But unfortunately, the mission known as "Operation Auca" ended with all of the missionaries losing their lives....

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