Rachel Saint

 

• She was born on January 2, 1914 in Wyncote, Pennsylvania to Lawrence and Katherine Saint.
• Her brother was the pilot missionary Nate Saint.
• Her first missionary assignment was to the Piro and Sharpa Indian tribes in Peru, but she felt like God was calling her to the Waorani.
• In February 1955 she and Catherine Peeke went to a missionary station near Waorani territory.
• Rachel started learning the Waorani language with the help of Dayuma, a Waorani woman who had left her people after a dispute and was sheltered by missionaries.
• In January 1956, five missionaries in the area were killed by Waorani people, including her brother Nate Saint. As a result, she considered herself spiritually bonded to the tribe.
•  In 1957 she went on a tour of the United States together with Dayuma, appearing with Billy Graham at Madison Square Garden and on Ralph Edwards' television show This Is Your Life.
• In the summer of 1958 Rachel Saint returned to the Waorani in Ecuador with Elisabeth Elliot, the wife of Jim Elliot who was killed by the Waorani.
• In February 1959 they were able to move into a Waorani settlement. Where the five American men had failed to gain entrance into the Waorani society, these two unarmed women (as well as Elliot's little daughter) were not perceived as a threat.
• Rachel lived there for over ten years.
• She died on November 11, 1994 in Quito, Ecuador from cancer.(1994-11-11) in       in