This magazine was one of the first to include written explanations of the events surrounding Jim Elliot’s death. The segments, which would eventually be adapted and expanded into the book Through Gates of Splendor, were written by Christian author and speaker Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015), who was a missionary to the Waodäni people of Ecuador in the 1950s with her husband, Jim Elliot. She chose to stay and live with the tribe after a Waodäni hunting party killed Jim and four other missionaries in 1956. After Jim’s death, Elisabeth was encouraged to write about what happened. She resisted at first, not wanting to turn attention to herself, and thus away from the work, but eventually realized that telling the story would help the mission continue. The cover includes a photo of Nate Saint’s yellow plane, Wings of Mercy, on the Curaray River in Ecuador. Saint was a part of the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF).