Source: Trans World Radio via Mission Network News, November 5, 2024
Lifted: A Dying Tribe Encounters New Life, [a 76-minute documentary], tells the story of an American family God called to the mission field in the 1950s. They were inspired by the stories of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint and three other missionaries who were killed in 1956 trying to befriend the Waodani people of Ecuador.
“Ivan Schoen was a carpenter. He was working on houses in St. Petersburg, Florida. He saw this article in the news of these missionaries’ death[s], and the Lord used it to say, ‘Ivan, I am calling you into this same line of work,’” says Clay Perry with TWR, the film’s primary producer.
What followed was a lifetime of risk, total lifestyle change, prayer, and relationship-building with two Amazonian tribes in Suriname, South America.
Read the full story and watch the trailer and/or full documentary. Parental discretion advised. You might also enjoy The Enemy God, a feature-length film about God’s work among the Yanomamö people of the Amazon.