The movie The End of the Spear tells the true story of five missionaries who gave their lives to reach the violent Waodoni tribe in the jungles of Ecuador. Led by Nate Saint (Chad Allen), the missionaries were eager to reach the Waodoni people before intertribal warfare and vicious revenge killings wiped out the population.

After landing their plane on a river sandbar, the missionaries were able to make contact with the Waodoni. However, the five men were later speared to death by a tribal war party.

Nate Saint's sister, Rachel, went to live with the Waodoni after her brother's murder, ministering to them until her death in 1994. When Nate's son, Steve, went to Ecuador for her funeral, he was caught up again in the drama of his father's martyrdom.

In this clip, one of the Waodoni leaders, Mincayani, takes Steve by canoe to the sandbar where the wreckage of the missionary plane still lies. There, in an emotional conversation, Mincayani tells Steve that he was the one who speared his father. Mincayani then picks up his own spear and points it at himself, inviting Steve to avenge his father. Enraged and grieving anew, Steve grabs the spear and holds it to Mincayani's chest, about to run him through. But after a moment of weeping, he says, "No one took my father's life—he gave it," and he throws down the spear.

The scene shifts to Steve and Mincayani flying over the jungle in a small plane at sunset, with Steve's voice-over capturing the essence of grace and reconciliation:

My father lost his life at the end of the spear. And it was at the end of the spear that Mincayani and I found ours. It's true that my dad and his four friends were not given the privilege of watching their children and grandchildren grow up. But Mincayani is a grandfather. It's the first time in Waodoni history that they have ever had so many grandfathers. He's not only a grandfather to his own children; he's a grandfather to mine. My dad would have liked that. Through the years, people could always identify with our loss, but they could never imagine the way in which we would experience gain.

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Content: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence.