GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) β Christian author and missionary Elisabeth Elliott has died at the age of 88, according to a statement on her website.
Her husband, Lars Gren, says Elliot died Monday morning. Gren says, “We rejoice for Elisabeth that she is home with her Lord.”
WORLD magazine reports that Elliot had suffered from dementia for about a decade, and died at the couple’s home in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Elliot’s first husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in 1956 while he and several other missionaries were trying to make contact with a remote tribe in Ecuador. She later became a missionary to the same tribe that killed her husband, converting many of them to Christianity, and remained with them for two years.
After returning to the United States, Elliot authored more than 20 Christian books and became a popular speaker.
Some of the Gateway to Joy programs she recorded between 1988 and 2001 can still be heard on the Bible Broadcasting Network. She began almost every program by saying, “‘You are loved with an everlasting love,’ – that’s what the Bible says – ‘and underneath are the everlasting arms.’ This is your friend, Elisabeth Elliot.”
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