Ethel Emily Wallis

Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Pete Fleming, Roger Youderian, and Ed McCully chose to lay down their lives on a sandy beach in Ecuador. Their lives and sacrifice come full circle in the breathtaking true story of Dayuma.
Violent, unexpected death was a way of life for the mysterious Waorani tribe living deep in the Ecuadorian jungle. When her father is brutally speared, young Dayuma is faced with a clear yet frightening choice: flee to the outside world to those thought to be cannibals or stay in the jungle to face certain death from the spears of the tribal killers.

Dayuma: Life Under Waorani Spears is the unforgettable story of one girl's odyssey into the unknown. Her eventual encounter with Christ ultimately changed her life and forever altered the destiny of her people. Dayuma is a vivid, lasting testimony to the power of the love of God and the cross to reach beyond any barrier.… (més)

As I flew in a tiny plane over the Auca forest of terror, deep in eastern Ecuador, on my way to meet Dayuma and Rachel Saint, the reality of a fantastic, but not fictitious, story came alive to me for the first time. Down there, somewhere in that dark greenness stretching endlessly under the tiny plane, Moipa had driven his spears into Tyaento. Tyaento's young daughter Dayuma then fled for her life to the outside, to a jungle hacienda. Eight years later a missionary-linguist found her there carrying heavy loads of bananas from sun to sun, and an almost incredible story began. I wanted to check the facts before committing them to print. It was almost dark that September evening when the jungle-hopping plane touched down on the grassy strip chopped out of virgin forest. I was welcomed not only by my good friends Dayuma and Rachel but by Dayuma's relatives Kimo and his pretty wife Dawa, Aucas who only a few days before had arrived at the Limoncocha Base of the Wycliffe Bible Translators on their first adventure away from their forest home. Kimo - the muscular young Indian who had participated in the spear-killing of Rachel's brother Nate and four fellow-missionaries almost four years earlier. For more than a month Rachel and I cross-questioned Kimo and Dawa for confirmation of Dayuma's story. A thrilling and exciting story.… (més)