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A news flash alerted the world: “Five Men Missing in Auca Territory.” The date was Monday, January 9, 1956. A team of missionary pioneers trying to make peaceful contact with an infamous tribe of Indians in Ecuador, the Waodani, had failed to make a scheduled radio call. For almost a full day no word had come from their camp on the Curaray River, which they named “Palm Beach.” Then a hovering pilot reported the badly damaged plane at the camp. This was followed by a gruesome confirmation on Wednesday, January 11, when the first body was spotted in the river. Though a search and rescue team was quickly formed, the discovery of more bodies quickly changed the mission from rescue to retrieval and burial.

By Friday of that week the team reached the missionaries’ campsite
and hurriedly buried four of the bodies. The men had died violently from
repeated spear wounds and machete cuts. The fifth body (Ed McCully)
was never located after being identified on the beach but then washed
away by the river. Five widows and eight orphans mourned the deaths
and looked to God for comfort and dire

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Steve Saint was born on January 30^th, 1951, in Ecuador at a Mission hospital where his parents were missionaries. In 1956 when Steve was five years old, he discovered the tragic news that other missionaries and his father Nate Saint were killed by the Waodani tribe when they were trying to spread the gospel to them. By the grace of God, Steve’s Aunt Rachel was somehow accepted into the community of the Waodani until she passed away in 1994. Marj, Steve’s mother, moved to Quito with her three children, where he received his education. During the summers, he would visit his aunt and the Waodani clan. He grew up recognizing the men who had killed his father, but he also came to love them, regard them as family, be baptized by their hands, and be adopted as a son.

He furthered his education in the U.S. and graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois. He returned to Ecuador and met his wife Ginny, who was traveling with a Christian music group from Minnesota. They got married in Ecuador, and Steve started a construction business there. When their first child Shaun was born, they mo

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Saint Stephen

1st-century Christian martyr and saint

This article is about Stephen the Protomartyr. For other uses, including other saints, see Saint Stephen (disambiguation).

Saint Stephen the Protomartyr
Saint Stephen the Martyr by Carlo Crivelli
Born	c. AD 5
Died	33–36 (aged 27–31) Jerusalem, Judaea, Roman Empire
Venerated in	All churches that believe in Sainthood
Canonized	Pre-Congregation
Feast	25 December (Armenian Apostolic Church) 26 December (Western) 27 December, 4 January, 2 August, 15 September (Eastern) Tobi 1 (Coptic Christianity)
Attributes	Red Martyr, stones, dalmatic, censer, miniature church, Gospel Book, martyr's palm. In Orthodox and Eastern Christianity he often wears an orarion
Patronage	Altar servers;^[1]Acoma Native American Pueblo; Bricklayers; casket makers; Cetona, Italy; deacons; headaches; horses; Kessel, Belgium; masons; Owensboro, Kentucky; Passau, Germany; Kigali, Rwanda; Dodoma, Tanzania; Serbia; Ligao; Republic of Srpska; Prato, Italy[1]

Stephen (Greek: Στέφανος, romanize