Movie: End of the Spear

Excerpted from Movie Review on ChristianityToday.com

The story has been told in Christian circles for 50 years. In 1956, five missionaries were brutally murdered in the Ecuadorian jungle by members of the Waodani tribe they went to serve. And then something amazing happened; the killers became Christians....

End of the Spear features the events of 1956 from the perspectives of the Waodani tribe leader, Mincayani, a quasi-fictional figure played by Louie Lenardo, and Nate Saint's son, Steve, played as a boy by Chase Ellison and as an adult by Chad Allen....

And the truth of the story is this: God had a Son who was speared so that we all might know forgiveness. Mincayani and the Waodani learned this when Nate Saint's sister Rachel, along with two of the widows and their children, moved into the Waodani village in the wake of their loved ones' deaths. It was through their witness that much of the tribe converted to Christianity. And it's through the harrowing experience of two men as told in End of the Spear—Steve Saint and Mincaye, now as close as father and son—that moviegoers can learn the power of forgiveness and reconciliation.