Becoming Elisabeth Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband, Jim, and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal...and lived in the jungle with the stone-age people who killed her husband. Compelled by her friendship and forgiveness, many came to faith in Jesus. This courageous, no-nonsense Christian went on to write dozens of books, host a long-running radio show, and speak at conferences all over the world. She was a pillar of coherent, committed faith; a beloved and sometimes controversial icon.

In this authorized biography, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, best-selling author Ellen Vaughn uses Elisabeth’s private, unpublished journals, and candid interviews with her family and friends, to paint the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history. It’s the story of a hilarious, sensual, brilliant, witty, self-deprecating, sensitive, radical, and surprisingly relatable person utterly submitted to doing God’s will, no matter how high the cost.

For Elisabeth, the central question was not, “How does this make me feel?” but, simply, “Is this true?” If so, then the next question was, “What do I need to do about it to obey God?”

“My life is on Thy Altar, Lord - for Thee to consume. Set the fire, Father! Bind me with cords of love to the Altar. Hold me there. Let me remember the Cross.” (Elisabeth Elliot, age 21)

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada
4. Part 1: Beginning Chapter 1: Death in the Afternoon
5. Chapter 2: Discovering the Story
6. Part 2: Becoming Chapter 3: G. M. T.
7. Chapter 4: At Any Cost
8. Chapter 5: Cutting Diamons
9. Chapter 6: A Very Small Frog
10. Chapter 7: "Let Me Not Sink to Be a Clod"
11. Chapter 8: A Refrigerated Rose
12. Chapter 9: Eunuch for Christ
13. Chapter 10: Patience in Alberta
14. Chapter 11: "You Made a Universally Horrible Impression. . . "
15. Chapter 12: Sitting Still
16. Chapter 13: "I Don't Feel Much like a Missionary"
17. Chapter 14: "I Wonder Sometimes If It Is Right to Be So Happy"
18. Chapter 15: The Colorful Colorados
19. Chapter 16: The First Deasth of Elisabeth Elliot
20. Chapter 17: Finally!
21. Chapter 18: In the Company of Saints
22. Chapter 19: What Might Have Been
23. Chapter 20: Cast of Characters
24. Chapter 21: Countdown to Contract
25. Chapter 22: The Second Death
26. Chapter 23: Christ the Beginning; Christ the End
27. Chapter 24: A Missionary Hag
28. Chapter 25: A Blank Wall
29. Chapter 26: "The Eyes of the World Are on That Tibe"
30. Chapter 27: "If They Killed Me, Better Still"
31. Chapter 28: A Missionary Hag
32. Chapter 29: "To Hell with My Zeal!"
33. Chapter 30: Child Lives among Her Father's Killers
34. Chapter 31: "Madness, Sheer Madness"
35. Chapter 32: Home but Not Home
36. Chapter 33: In the Pit
37. Chapter 34: Two Women at the End of the World
38. Chapter 35: The Bridges Burn
39. Part 3: Being Chapter 36: What Happened Next
40. Chapter 37: The Irrevelant Question
41. Chapter 38: The Relevant Question
42. Chapter 39: The Dust and Ashes
43. Chapter 40: The Next Thing
44. Chapter 41: The Problem of Pain
45. Epilogue: A Note from the Author
46. Closing Credits