The Mantle on the Tarmac
When missionary pilot Nate Saint was killed by Waodani warriors in Ecuador in January 1956, his son Steve was just five years old. The boy...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14.
When missionary pilot Nate Saint was killed by Waodani warriors in Ecuador in January 1956, his son Steve was just five years old. The boy grew up hearing stories of his father's final flight into the jungle — the yellow Piper Cruiser circling above the Curaray River, the five men who stepped onto that sandbar and never came home. Steve could have walked away from that legacy.…
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