Ed McCully

Ed McCully

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name = Ed McCully


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birth_date = 1927
birth_place = Wisconsin
death_date = January 8, 1956
death_place = Curaray River, Ecuador
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nationality = American
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education = Wheaton College
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Marquette University Law School
(1949-50)
School of Missionary Medicine
(1951-52)
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religion = Christian (Plymouth Brethren)
spouse = Marilou McCully (née Hobolth)
(Jun 29, 1951 – Jan 8, 1956)
children = Steve McCully (b. 1952)
Mike McCully (b. 1954)
Matt McCully (b. 1956)
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Edward "Ed" McCully (1927 – 1956) was an evangelical Christian missionary to Ecuador who, along with four other missionaries, was killed while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people, through efforts known as Operation Auca.

Early years

McCully was the second oldest of three children. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his father was a bakery executive. The family attended a Plymouth Brethren assembly called at that time the, "Good News Chapel," now called, "Wauwatosa Bible Chapel." McCully's father was also an active lay preacher.

College Years

In the fall of 1945, McCully enrolled in Wheaton College where he majored in business and economics. It was also at Wheaton where he met and became good friends with Jim Elliot.

In college, McCully was an exceptional student. At 6'2" and 190 lbs., he proved to be very athletic and was a star on both the football and track teams. He also distinguished himself as a gifted orator, and became very popular among his classmates. His self-authored speech about Alexander Hamilton won him the 1949 National Hearst Oratorical Contest in San Francisco, a contest in which over 10,000 students had entered. That same year, McCully was unanimously elected senior class president.

After graduating from Wheaton in 1949, McCully entered Marquette University Law School intent on becoming a lawyer. Just before his second year there, he took a job as a hotel night clerk. Originally intending to spend the long hours studying classwork, he instead began reading more of the Bible. The story of Nehemiah as well as his correspondence with Jim Elliot, who was making preparations to leave for Ecuador at the time, inspired McCully to consider missionary work. Finally, on September 22, 1950, the day before he was to register for his second year of school, he announced he would not be returning.

Ministry in America

After dropping out of law school, McCully began a ministry in the United States. In the winter and spring of 1951, he and Jim Elliot shared a weekly evangelical radio broadcast. He also travelled and spoke at various churches around the country. At one stop in Pontiac, Michigan, he met his future wife, Marilou Hobolth. They were married on June 29, 1951.

He then entered the School of Missionary Medicine in Los Angelos (today part of Biola University). He spent a year there studying dentistry, obstetrics, and tropical diseases and their treatments.

Ministry in Ecuador

The McCullys went to Ecuador supported by Christian Missions in Many Lands (CMML). Ed, Marilou, and their 8 month old son, Stevie, left for Ecuador by ship on December 10, 1952. They first stayed in Quito to finish their Spanish study, then joined Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming at their mission station in Shandia. Eventually the McCullys took up residence at the Arajuno mission station deep in the jungle. They worked with the Quechua Indians.

In the fall of 1955, McCully, along with Jim Elliot and missionary pilot Nate Saint, began Operation Auca, their plan to reach the previously un-contacted Huaorani Indians. Since the Huaorani had a reputation as a hostile tribe, everything was done to earn their trust. The missionaries began by making gifts drops from Saint's airplane. McCully would often accompany him on these missions.

When the missionaries felt they had built up enough of a rapport with the Huaorani, they decided to land in their territory. By this time, Roger Youderian and Pete Fleming had also joined the effort. Saint was able to land the airplane on a sandbar along the Curaray River. On January 8, the missionaries were attacked by a party of 6 Huao warriors and 3 women. McCully was speared by a young Huao named Mincaye, and also severely mutilated with a machete.

Shortly afterwards, a search party was organized to find the men. McCully's body was the only one of the five not found by the search party. Some Quechua Indians later claimed to have found his body further down stream, and even produced McCully's shoe and wristwatch as evidence; but his body was never recovered.

After Death

, and drew around 800 people.

Marilou eventually returned to Ecuador and lived in Quito for 6 years, running a home for missionary children. She later returned to America and settled in Washington State where she worked as a hospital bookkeeper. She never remarried, and died of cancer on April 24, 2006 film "End of the Spear".

References

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* [http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/jek/01/08.html The Martyrs of the Ecuador Mission]
* Heinen, Tom. [http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=383536 Widow never blamed her husband's killers] (Jan. 7, 2006)
* [http://www.plymouthbrethren.org/page.php?page_id=545 Five Missionary Martyrs]


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