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

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.