The Christian world was rocked 70 years ago this week, when five young missionaries–Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully and Pete Fleming–were killed deep in the Amazonian rainforest of Ecuador. The men had been dropping gifts from their plane to establish connection with the tribal Waorani people in order to eventually bring the gospel to them. When attempting their second face to face interaction on Waorani land, the Waorani, who were deeply skeptical of all outsiders, brutally murdered the five American missionaries.