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Valerie Elliot Shepard is the daughter of missionary parents, Elisabeth and Jim Elliot, who were martyred in the Amazon jungle in 1956. She married Walter Shepard, a pastor's son, and has 8 children, 8 grandchildren, and a ministry of hospitality and prayer. She shares her parents' story and her own experiences in Devotedly and Pilipinto.
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My delight in reading them started in 2011, after my last child left for college. Then, about ten months after my mother died in 2015, I found what I was truly not expecting. I discovered, tucked away in the attic, what I was sure were lost: my mother’s letters to my father. These letters had traveled with him throughout his time in Ecuador, and ye...
In the Old Testament, a “devoted thing” (Leviticus 27:28) meant something given up as a sacrifice, and this is exactly what Jim Elliot and Betty Howard did with each other. They were devoted to God first, and his glory, so their letters reflected their primary purpose. Verses that spoke to them about trusting and waiting were frequently studied and...
Waiting, trusting, praying, and waiting again. How deep our prayer life grows, when we take God at his word, and meditate on words like these of Isaiah: And another of my favorites is Isaiah 30:15, 18: My parents’ devotion to him played out in separate places as they wrote and begged God to send them to the mission field, and to show them clearly w...
They chose Isaiah 25:9 KJVas their answer from him: I want others to hear the love story I found in their letters, a story of my mother and father dying to self in order to bow to the authority of their Father — asking, seeking, knocking, and trusting God and his timing. I pray their unusual love, for the Lord and each other, will inspire and shape...
Valerie Elliot Shepard was only 10 months old in January 1956 when her father, Jim Elliot, was killed. She then spent her childhood through age 8 in Ecuador alongside her mother, Elisabeth. A graduate of Wheaton College, Valerie and her husband, Walt, are the parents of eight children.
She married Walter Shepard shortly after that and moved to live with him in Louisiana. Valerie has spent 36 years being a pastor’s wife, raising 8 children, homeschooling, and teaching Bible studies. Valerie and Walter’s ministry has been one of hospitality, leading prayer meetings, and learning to live in God’s grace with joy.
3 de abr. de 2019 · Valerie Elliot Shepard was only 10 months old in January 1956 when her father, Jim Elliot, was killed. She then spent her childhood through age 8 in Ecuador alongside her mother, Elisabeth. A graduate of Wheaton College, Valerie and her husband, Walt, are the parents of eight children.
11 de ago. de 2022 · In the absence of Jim Elliot, Elisabeth’s brother, Tom, walked Valerie down the aisle and into her new role as a pastor’s wife. When she joined Walter at his first church, Valerie says, she went in thinking she couldn’t be herself. She and her family had to be an example because of who her parents were.
6 de set. de 2019 · As the wife of a pastor for 43 years, Shepard has played her own role in sharing the love of Christ. When her husband, Walter Shepard, retired in 2018, the couple moved to Long Beach.
