Missionary held hostage by Al-Qaeda for seven years says 'God was always there'.
Ken and Jocelyn Elliott before they were kidnapped.(Photograph: Facebook/Rebekah Ziesmer Strand)A Christian missionary who was held captive by an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group has shared details of his ordeal, where he was kept in brutal conditions that saw him face extremes of heat and cold, scorpions, and scurvy.
Incredibly, Dr Ken Elliott, who was 82 when taken hostage, would be forced to endure all this for seven years before he would be released. But, when asked how could an octogenarian possibly manage to survive all this, and for so long, he has a simple answer—God. CT.
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