We are pleased to announce Steve Saint will be speaking Saturday July 22 at the evening meeting (7:45 PM at Anderson Auditorium). You can read more about Steve along with the bios of most other speakers for the week.
Stephen Saint grew up in Ecuador, son of martyred missionary Nate Saint who was killed by the Waodani tribe in 1956. He came to know and love these people who were served by his aunt, Rachel Saint until her death in 1994. Steve will be the Saturday evening speaker at NWMC July 22, 2007.
A graduate of Wheaton College, Steve has launched several successful businesses and has worked as a missionary in West Africa, Central America and South America. At the request of the Waodani elders, he returned to the Amazon in 1995 along with his wife and children. Steve is the founder if I-TEC (Indigenous People’s Technology & Education Center) whose focus is on enabling indigenous churches to overcome the technological and educational hurdles that stand in the way of their independence - a vision that grew out of this experience among the Waodani. This formerly proud and independent group had become a welfare state, and their church a welfare church. While the Waodani people were the initial concern of I-TEC, its mission includes other hidden people groups around the world who will benefit from support such as dental equipment, solar-powered radio transmitters, canoe motors and powered parachutes.
Steve and his wife Ginny have been married 33 years and have four children, Shaun, Jaime, Jesse, (who are married to Anne, Jessica and Jenni Joy) and Stephenie, who died suddenly in 2000 at age 20. Ten grandchildren (soon to be eleven) are the joy of their lives.
Steve is a hands-on participant in I-TEC projects, is the author of three books and numerous articles, and is increasingly involved in speaking and radio and television appearances. The story of his father is featured in the recent movie "End of the Spear" and he narrates the documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor.
