Being the child of a missionary isn’t an easy road. Being the grandson of what is likely one of the most famous missionaries might be even more difficult, especially when you never even got a chance to meet him.
From a very young child I knew the story of Nate Saint and Jim Elliot and the other missionaries who accompanied them to the bank of the river in Ecuador, where the Waodani tribe speared them to death. I attended conferences where Elisabeth Elliot spoke and read Through the Gates of Splendor. As an adult I related to all that I knew, through the movie End of the Spear. So I was very intrigued to watch “The Grandfathers” a documentary made about Jesse Saint and the legacy his grandfather Nate Saint and great-aunt Rachel left him with the Auca Indians.
Imagine being in high school and having your parents tell you you’re moving to the jungles of the Amazon. Not just that, but you’re moving into the community of the people who speared your grandfather to death?
It’s then that you realize that the world is much bigger than you are, and that’s just what Jesse Saint finds out as he lives among the Waodani people, and finds the three men that murdered his grandfather, are in fact just as much family to him as his flesh and blood.
Jim Hanon and Mart Green create a 1 hour documentary that is artistically done, and shares a story that spans four generations, tying together cultures and families in a way that only the love of God could do. Learn how the son of a stained glass window maker changes the lives of not just his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but also the families of the people who killed him on a beach.
B and B Media provided me with a review copy of this DVD.
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Omg, really?? I heard of the spear movie but never saw it. I’m going to add both to my netflix account…I had no idea that was what it was about.