Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot – eBook

Their paths to God's purpose led them together.

Many know the heroic story of Jim Elliot's violent death
in 1956, killed along with four other missionaries by a
primitive Ecuadorian tribe they were seeking to reach. Many
also know the prolific legacy of Elisabeth Elliot, whose
inspiring influence on generations of believers through
print, broadcast, and personal testimony continues to
resonate, even after her own death in 2015.

What many don't know is the remarkable story of how these
two stalwart personalities-single-mindedly devoted to
pursuing God's will for their young lives, certain their
future callings would require them to sacrifice forever the
blessings of marriage-found their hearts intertwined. Their
paths to God's purpose led them together.

Now, for the first time, their only child-daughter
Valerie Elliot Shepard-unseals never-before-published
letters and private journals that capture in first-person
intimacy the attraction, struggle, drama, and devotion that
became a most unlikely love story.

Riveting for old and young alike, this moving account of
their personal lives shines as a gold mine of lived-out
truth, hard-fought purity, and an insider's view on two
beloved Christian figures.