These Strange Ashes: A Deeply Personal Account of Elisabeth Elliot's First Year as a Missionary Author Geneva Cobb Iijima Compassion International

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” They take pains

As she searches “for something that is lost before we can even remember

You have been given access to God

Or our faith itself

These Strange Ashes: A Deeply Personal Account of Elisabeth Elliot's First Year as a Missionary Author Geneva Cobb Iijima Compassion InternationalIn this deeply personal account of her first year as a missionary, Elisabeth Elliot shares what it was like to work in the jungles of Ecuador with a small group of women, bringing the Word of God to the indigenous tribe that martyred her husband. With fascinating detail, she captures the stark realities of life among these complex people and reflects upon the "strange ashes" that can result when an act of obedience is passed through the fires of God's