Stephen Farris Saint (born January 30, 1951) is a businessman, pilot, and business writer born in Ecuador. He is known as the son of Nate Saint, a famous missionary pilot, as well as for his own work among indigenous tribes.
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Saint was born in Quito, Ecuador, at the mission hospital. He is the second child of Nate and Marj Saint. He has an older sister, Kathy, and a younger brother, Philip. The family lives in Quito where his father is a missionary pilot with the Mission Aviation Fellowship. In 1956, his father and four other missionaries were killed by the Waodani Indians during Operation Auca, during an attempt to make peaceful contact with them.
After the death of Saint's father, the family moved to Quito where Saint attended school. It was at this point that his aunt Rachel Saint and Elisabeth Elliot made a peaceful contact with Waodani and lived with them in the forest. At the age of 10, Saint first went to live with Waodani, staying with them during the summer. He learns about living in the forest, and also develops relationships with many tribal members. In June 1965, "Babae", as he was called by a tribe, was baptized in the Curaray River by Kimo and Dyuwi, two of his father's killers who had turned into Christians.
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Life in the United States
After graduating from the Alliance Academy in Quito, Steve Saint moved to the United States to attend Wheaton College where in 1973 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. Immediately after graduation, he returned to Ecuador and worked for some time as a tour guide. It was there that he met and married his wife Virginia Lynn Olson (known as Ginny) who came from Minnesota and visited Ecuador on a short-term mission team. Not long after the birth of their first child, the Saints returned to the United States and lived in Minnesota where Saint began a successful career as an entrepreneur. They then moved to Ocala, Florida.
Return to Ecuador
In 1994, Rachel Saint died in Ecuador after spending 36 years with Waodani. Saint soon travels to Ecuador to bury it. It was then that the Waodani people who knew Santo as a child asked him to move his family to live with them. After talking to the decision with his family, he accepted the tribal invitation, moved to the forest in 1995. Saint worked with Waodani to improve their living conditions by building community centers and developing a much-needed economy.
Next life
Saint left Ecuador in 1996, feeling that his sustained presence within the tribe will hinder their development towards independence. He did, however, make the next few trips, and continued working with the tribe. On a journey, he helped a group of Waodani Indians collect their own aircraft at Shell. A group of Quechua Indians approached him and asked why they could not build an airplane for their tribe. Saint responded that they could, and this was when Saint discovered the need for a global effort aimed at teaching practical skills to indigenous peoples. Soon he founded the Center for Indigenous People's Education and Technology, Inc. (I-TEC) whose projects include flying flying car, I-Fly Maverick. In 2010 Saint sought support for commercial production.
Saint appeared and recounted the 2004 documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor. In 2005 he published his memoir, a book called End of the Spear. In 2006 there was a major film adaptation of the book, and Saint was deeply involved in the production process. He is also an action pilot who flew his father's PA-14 replica in the film.
He also wrote other books including Walking His Trail.
Saint has been very close to Mincaye, one of the Waodani tribes who killed his father. She and Mincaye have made several appearances together in television interviews and at Christian concerts around the world. Steve now often visits churches to talk about his life.
injury June 2012
On June 13, 2012, Saint was badly hurt by the equipment that crashed while testing it. He paralyzed some of his neck down and is scheduled for surgery on June 20, 2012 to reduce the pressure on his spine. As of September 2012, recovery is on the way. A message on his Facebook page stated that he was back at work, writing a bulletin in May 2013.
Family
The Saints have four children - Shaun, Jaime, Jesse, and Stephenie. Shaun is a medical doctor, Jaime works for I-TEC and has six daughters, and Jesse works for I-TEC. Stephenie briefly attended the University of Florida, but died in the summer of 2000 from a sudden brain hemorrhage.
Today, Steve and Ginny live in Ocala, Florida, and continue to make regular trips to Ecuador.
References
Work
Books
- Great Negligence: Complete the Commission of Christ Completely (2001). ISBNÃ, 1-57658-216-7
- Spear End (2005). ISBNÃ, 0-8423-8488-X
- Walk the Traces: Signs of God Along the Way (2007). ISBN: 978-1-4143-1376-4
Articles
- "Do They Have to Die?", Christianity Today , 16 September 1996 Ã, .
- Unfinished Mission for Aucas, ellie Christianity Today (March 3, 1998).
- Seeing Mission from Their Side, Not We, Mission Frontiers (May - June 1998).
Contribution
Jungle Pilot: The Story Continues (1997), epilogue for the latest issue of Jungle Pilot: The Story of Gripping Life and Witnesses Nate Saint, Martyrs Mission to Ecuador by Russell T. Hitt, (1957).Other sources
- Stephen F. Saint's Biography Information
- Hitt, Russell T. Forest Pilot
- Saint, Steve (2005). Spear End . Saltriver. ISBNÃ, 0-8423-8488-X. Ã,
- Washington Post article
- interview
- Interview with Mission Frontiers
- Profile in World View Weekend
- "Fighting Dependency among the Aucas". Interview . Network for Strategic Missions. Archived from the original in 2007-12-22 . Retrieved 2010-11-25 . Ã,
- Description by Frank Wolf on the floor of the United States House of Representatives
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