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End of the Spear author says God still writing chapters in his life’s storyRe-evaluate mission efforts, Steve Saint tells North American churches Published: April 10, 2008 CAROLYN NICHOLSFlorida Baptist Witness Photo by James A. Smith Sr.Steve Saint stands with Waodani tribesman Mincaye, a man responsible for the murder of his missionary father, Nate Saint. Both spoke March 15 at a missions conference at Calvary Baptist Church in Arcadia. ARCADIA (FBW)—Steve Saint has spent a lifetime in missions among the Waodani tribe in Ecuador. Telling an audience in Arcadia the Christian life “is an extreme call to a radical life...

Documenting forgiveness Steve Saint stands alongside Mincaye, one of the Waodani Indians featured in a new documentary on the murder of Saint’s father, missionary Nate Saint, and four other missionaries in 1956 in Ecuador. Photo courtesy of Every Tribe Entertainment DALLAS (BP)--The Waodani Indians of Ecuador were killing six of every 10 of their tribesmen when American missionaries entered their isolated community in January 1956. Anthropologists say the tribe, identified then as the Aucas, had one of the most violent cultures ever documented and was headed toward extinction. Missionary pilot Nate Saint had located the tribe in circling the Amazon...