Timeline

Elisabeth Howard is born in Brussels, Belgium, to missionary parents, Philip and Katharine Howard.

The Howard family moves to Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Philip James “Jim” Elliot is born in Portland, Oregon, to Fred and Clara Elliot.

Elisabeth attends Hampden DuBose Academy boarding school in Orlando, Florida.

Elisabeth enters Wheaton College desiring to become a Bible translator and studies Classical Greek.

Elisabeth meets Jim Elliot, her brother David’s roommate, at Wheaton College.

Elisabeth spends the year at Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, Canada.

Jim sets sail for Quito, Ecuador, for mission work.

Elisabeth sets sail for Quito, Ecuador, for mission work.

Elisabeth & Jim marry in Quito, Ecuador.

Elisabeth & Jim’s daughter, Valerie, is born.

Shortly after, the Elliot family moves to the Shandia mission base to serve the Quechua people.

Jim & other missionaries begin dropping gifts from Nate Saint’s airplane to Waodani tribe members.

Missionary families celebrate the 1956 New Year together.

“Operation Auca” begins. 5 missionaries fly to & camp at “Palm Beach” with supplies in hopes to reach the Waodani tribe.

Successful initial contact in made with members of the tribe.

This Sunday morning, members of the Waodani tribe return to “Palm Beach” with spears. They attack & kill all 5 missionaries: Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Pete Fleming, and Ed McCully.

Listen to the January 16 Memorial Service, held in Ecuador.

Elisabeth writes Through Gates of Splendor.

Elisabeth, Valerie, & Rachel Saint (Nate Saint’s sister) learn the Huao language & travel into the jungle to live with the Waodani people. Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot is published.

Many among the Waodani tribe accept Christ as their Lord & Savior.

The Savage My Kinsman is published.

Elisabeth & Valerie move back to the United Sates to their family home in Franconia, New Hampshire.

No Graven Image is published.

Elisabeth & Addison Leitch, a professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, are married.

Elisabeth’s second husband, Addison Leitch, dies of cancer. God’s Guidance: A Slow and Certain Light is published.

Elisabeth joins the faculty of Gordon-Conwell Seminary as an adjunct professor.

Valerie marries Walter Shepard.

These Strange Ashes is published, & Elisabeth serves as a contributor to the New International Version of the Bible (NIV).

Let Me Be a Woman is published.

Elisabeth & Lars Gren are married.

The Journals of Jim Elliot is published.

Elisabeth is appointed writer-in-residence at Gordon College in MA. The Mark of a Man is published.

Discipline: The Glad Surrender is published.

Passion and Purity is published.

A Lamp Unto My Feet is published.

A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael is published.

Elisabeth begins hosting a daily radio program Gateway to Joy on Back to the Bible.

A Path Through Suffering is published.

Keep a Quiet Heart  & A Quest for Love are published.

Gateway to Joy: Reflections That Draw Us Nearer to God & The Path of Loneliness are published.

Final episode of Gateway to Joy radio program is broadcast.

Be Still My Soul is published.

Elisabeth retires from public speaking due to progressing dementia.

Elisabeth Elliot passes away in her home in Magnolia, Massachusetts, & enters through Heaven’s Gates of Splendor.

Suffering is Never For Nothing is published posthumously. Valerie Elliot Shepard has her parents letters published in Devotedly: The Personal Letters and Love Story of Jim and Elisabeth Elliot.

The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation is established.

Ellen Vaughn’s authorized biography of Elisabeth, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, is published.

The beloved perpetual calendar, A Heart for God, is republished.

Also released is a never-before-published devotional from Elisabeth, Heart of God: 31 Days to Discover God’s Love for You.