Editing Jim Elliot (section)

==Ecuador==
Elliot and Fleming arrived in Ecuador on February 21, 1952, with the purpose of evangelizing Ecuador's Quechua people. They first stayed in [[Quito]], and then moved to the jungle.  They took up residence at the [[Shandia]] [[Mission (station)|mission station]]. On October 8, 1953, he married fellow [[Wheaton College (Illinois)|Wheaton]] [[alumna]] and missionary [[Elisabeth Elliot|Elisabeth Howard]]. The wedding was a simple civil ceremony held in Quito. Ed and Marilou McCully were the witnesses.  The couple then took a brief honeymoon to Panama and Costa Rica, then returned to Ecuador.  Their only child, Valerie, was born February 27, 1955. While working with the Quechua, Elliot began preparing to reach the Huaorani.{{Citation needed |date=September 2015}}

Elliot and his group ([[Ed McCully]], [[Roger Youderian]], [[Pete Fleming]], and their pilot, [[Nate Saint]]) made contact from their [[Piper PA-14 Family Cruiser|Piper PA-14 airplane]] with the Huaorani using a loudspeaker and a basket to pass down gifts. After several months, the men decided to build a base a short distance from the Amerindian village, along the [[Curaray River]]. There they were approached one time by a small group of Huaorani and even gave an airplane ride to one curious Huaorani whom they called "George" (his real name was Naenkiwi). Encouraged by these friendly encounters, they began plans to visit the Huaorani. Their plans were preempted by the arrival of a larger group of about 10 Huaorani warriors, who killed Elliot and his four companions on January 8, 1956. Jim Elliot was the first of the five missionaries killed when he and Peter Fleming were greeting two of those attackers. Elliot's body was found downstream, along with those of the other men. Ed McCully's body was found even farther downstream.<ref>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Justin |date=2016-01-16 |title=They Were No Fools: The Martyrdom of Jim Elliot and Four Other Missionaries |url=https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/they-were-no-fools-60-years-ago-today-the-martyrdom-of-jim-elliot-and-four-other-missionaries/ |access-date=2020-01-19}}</ref>