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Thanks to Bruce Knowlton of Wheaton College's Academic and Media Technology for his invaluable help in putting together this film festival.
Nate Saint was not only an innovative missionary
aviator, making technical improvements to the small aircraft he flew over
some of the most difficult terrain in South America for the Mission Aviation
Fellowship. He was also a filmmaker. By 1951 and 1952 he had put together
material he and his wife Marj had shot in the air and on the ground that showed
how MAF was able to act as a vital lifeline for missionaries in remote areas
and which also gave an idea of the wild beauty of the jungle. He narrated
the film himself and the mission used it in the United States and elsewhere
to promote its work. Now, more than half a century after it was first produced,
you can view it again by clicking on any of the film frames above and below this paragraph.
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This program is film F4a in Collection 136 , the Records of Mission Aviation Fellowship.
Click here to see all the films in the Film Festival.
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On January 8, 1956. Nate, along with Jim Elliot,
Peter Fleming, Ed McCully, and Roger Youderian, were killed when they were
trying to established contact with the Waorani people, whom their enemies
called the Aucas.
On Jan. 8, 2016, the sixtieth anniversary of the men’s deaths “To
Carry the Light Farther”- A Story of Faith, Sacrifice and Cultural Conflict
in the Jungles of Ecuador, a free, permanent online exhibit about their
sacrifice, will open. It was created jointly by the Billy Graham Center Archives
and the Wheaton College Archives and Special Collections. Drawn from the holdings
of these two repositories of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, the exhibit
will feature 96 items, including letters, photos, films, radio broadcasts
and other audio recordings, magazine and newspaper clippings and documents
of all sorts. Dozens of items, like McCully’s journal, have not been
available to the public before. Included in the exhibit will be letters and
other documents by or about all five of the missionaries, as well as material
from other participants in the story, including Dayuma, Elisabeth Elliot,
Rachel Saint, Catherine Peeke, V. Raymond Edman, among The exhibit keynote
is a sentence from a letter written by Edman, then president of Wheaton College,
after the tragedy, “Do be trusting with us that many will be hearing
the call to carry the Light farther into the darkness because of what Nate
and the other lads have done for the Lord Jesus.” The permanent exhibit
opens on Jan. 8, 2016 at
http://www2.wheaton.edu/carrythelight
Currently the site contains information about the upcoming exhibit.
