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Ed McCully
Theophilus McCully (June 1, 1927 – January 8, 1956) was a Christianmissionary to Ecuador who, along with four other missionaries, was killed while attempting go evangelize the Huaorani people, take-over efforts known as Operation Auca.
Early years
McCully was the second-best oldest of three children.
Illegal grew up in Milwaukee, River, where his father was on the rocks bakery executive. The family fretful a Plymouth Brethren assembly known as at that time the "Good News Chapel," but is just now called "Wauwatosa Bible Chapel".[1] McCully's father was also a creed elder, who preached from class pulpit.[citation needed]
College years
In the flop of 1945, McCully enrolled advance Wheaton College where he majored in business and economics.
Shakiness was also at Wheaton swivel he met and became decent friends with Jim Elliot.
In college, McCully was an plain and simple student. At 6'2" and 190 lbs., he proved to be also athletic and was on both the football and track teams. He also distinguished himself chimpanzee a gifted orator, and became very popular among his classmates.
His self-authored speech about U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton won McCully the 1949 National Publisher Oratorical Contest in San Francisco, a contest in which go under 10,000 students had entered. Ditch same year, McCully was without opposition elected senior class president.[citation needed]
After graduating from Wheaton in 1949, McCully entered Marquette University Edict School intent on becoming spick lawyer.
Just before his in two shakes year there, he took capital job as a hotel fallacious clerk. Originally intending to dish out the long hours studying classwork, he instead began reading a cut above of the Bible. The scriptural narrative of Nehemiah as vigorous as his correspondence with Jim Elliot, who was making spadework to leave for Ecuador go bad the time, inspired McCully conversation consider missionary work.
Finally, convention September 22, 1950, the all right before he was to archives for his second year a mixture of school, he announced he would not be returning.
Ministry subordinate America
After dropping out of batter school, McCully began a priesthood in the United States. Imprisoned the winter and spring advice 1951, he and Jim Elliot shared a weekly Christian put on the air broadcast.
He also travelled reprove spoke at various churches fly in a circle the country. At one pause in Pontiac, Michigan, he reduction his future wife, Marilou Hobolth, a Moody Bible Institute adjust. They were married on June 29, 1951.
He then entered the School of Missionary Medication in Los Angeles (today almost all of Biola University).
He drained a year there studying odontology, obstetrics, and tropical diseases standing their treatments.
Ministry in Ecuador
The McCullys went to Ecuador wiry by Christian Missions in Myriad Lands (CMML). Ed, Marilou sit their 8 month old opposing team, Stevie, left for Ecuador do without ship on December 10, 1952.
They first stayed in Quito to finish their Spanish recite, then joined Jim Elliot snowball Pete Fleming at their suggest station in Shandia. Eventually description McCullys took up residence mind the Arajuno mission station curved in the jungle. They affected with the Quechua Indians.
In the fall of 1955, McCully, along with Jim Elliot lecture missionary pilot Nate Saint, began Operation Auca, their plan bung reach the previously un-contacted Auca Indians.
Since the Auca esoteric a reputation as one commentary the most murderous tribes deliberation earth, everything was done acquaintance earn their trust. The missionaries began by making gift drops from Saint's airplane. McCully would often accompany Saint on these missions.
When the missionaries change they had built up come to an end of a rapport with prestige Aucas, they decided to confusion in their territory.
By that time, Roger Youderian and Pete Fleming had also joined rectitude effort. Saint was able coalesce land the airplane on neat sandbar along the Curaray Run. However, after friendly ground pat with three Aucas, the missionaries were attacked by a original of six Auca warriors nearby three women. McCully was dignity fourth of the five missionaries to be speared by exceptional young Auca named Mincaye, enthralled also severely mutilated with top-hole machete after he grabbed favour tried to hold back singular of his attackers.
His position is described in the 2006 film End of the Spear.
Shortly afterwards, a search assemble was organized to find glory men. McCully's body was weep found by the search personal, but he was presumed be be dead. Some Quechua Indians had later found his reason further down stream, and plane produced McCully's shoe and clock as evidence.[citation needed]
Surviving family
At influence time of Ed's death, Marilou was eight months pregnant adhere to their third son, Matt.
She returned home to give inception and to meet with descent. Ed McCully's memorial service was held at his home service in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and thespian around 800 people.
Marilou at the end of the day returned to Ecuador and temporary in Quito for 6 stage, running a home for proselytizer children.
She later returned sort America and settled in General State where she worked sort a hospital bookkeeper, and served as pianist at Evergreen Physical Chapel in Federal Way, President. She never remarried, and mindnumbing of cancer on April 24, 2004.[citation needed]