Deschutes Public Library

Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, Ellen Vaughn

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-298)

individual biography

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

bibliography

1196182000

Ellen Vaughn

Discover the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history, Elisabeth Elliot, a brilliant, witty, self-deprecating, sensitive, radical, and surprisingly relatable person utterly submitted to doing God's will, no matter how high the cost. - Publisher

Foreword / Joni Eareckson Tada -- Part one : Beginning. Death in the afternoon -- Discovering the story -- Part two : Becoming. G. M. T. -- At any cost -- Cutting diamonds -- A very small frog -- "Let me not sink to be a clod" -- A refrigerated rose -- Eunuch for Christ -- Patience in Alberta -- "You made a universally horrible impression" -- Sitting still -- "I don't feel much like a missionary" -- "I wonder sometimes if it is right to be so happy" -- The colorful Colorados -- The first death of Elisabeth Elliot -- Finally! -- In the company of saints -- What might have been -- Cast of characters -- Countdown to contact -- The second death -- Christ the beginning; Christ the end -- Through the gates -- A blank wall -- "The eyes of the world are on that tribe" -- "If they killed me, better still" -- A missionary hag -- "To hell with my zeal!" -- Child lives among her father's killers -- "Madness, sheer madness" -- Home but not home -- In the pit -- Two women at the end of the world -- The bridges burn -- Part three : Being. What happened next -- The irrelevant question -- The relevant question -- The dust and ashes -- The next thing -- The problem of pain -- Epilogue : A note from the author

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