End of Spear

"Some people say we live in a world that reconcile both differences, others see it true peace, the lasting peace can't be obtain because they haven't found a way yet to change the human heart." The speech in the begining of the film, End of Spear that I just watched and felt inspired and moved by the story.

Mincaye Enquedi & Steve Saint

Directed by Jim Hanon released in 2006 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the murders, tells the story from the perspective of Steve Saint whose father, Nate Saint was one of the murdered missionaries and Mincaye Enquedi who believed to have speared both Nate Saint and another missionaries, Ed McCully during the Operation Auca.

A true story of five American Evangelical Christian missionaries in Ecuador who set out to reach the Huaorani (Wadani) who were an isolated tribe known for their violence against both their own people and outsiders who entered their territory.

In September 1955, with the intention of being the first Christians to evangelize the previously uncontacted Huaorani, the missionaries began making regular flights dropping gifts over Huaorani settlements. After several months of exchanging gifts, the missionaries established a camp at Palm Beach, a sandbar along the Curaray River (a few kilometers from Huaorani settlements) on January 3, 1956. Their efforts came to an end on January 8, 1956 when all five - Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming and Roger Youderian were attacked and speared to death by a group of Huaorani warriors.

In 1958, the widow of Jim Elliot, Elisabeth and the sister of Nate Saint, Rachel, returned to Ecuador as missionaries with the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now SIL International) to live with Huaorani (the same people who had murdered the men they loved), they learned their language, taught them the Bible and successfully forging a friendship that transformed all of them.

In 1994, Steve traveled to Ecuador to bury his aunt, Rachel Saint who died after spending thirty-six years with Huaorani. A year later, he and his family moved to the Amazon basin to live with Mincaye and his family.

End of Spear is an amazing story of Truth, Love and Forgiveness; a tribesman and the son of a man he killed forge an unlikely friendship. Mincaye is now a surrogate grandfather to Steve's children and Steve, now works with the Huaorani people who travels around the world, often accompanied by Mincaye, preaching the gospel.

"I realized if we let God write the story, 
He doesn't always promise that all chapters would be easy 
but He does promise that in the last chapter He will make sense of all the other things 
that have happened in our life even though some of them are terribly painful 
and I'm very, very thankful that He has."

Steve Saint

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Testimony Steve Saint: