[164] Entrepreneur Saint Visits MTSU Nov. 14

News and Media Relations contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu
Aerospace contacts: Nate Callender, 615-898-5983 or Nate.Callender@mtsu.edu
or Joe Cooper, 715-577-0821

Entrepreneur Saint visits MTSU Nov. 14

MURFREESBORO — Entrepreneur, businessman, missionary, filmmaker and author Steve Saint will appear at MTSU Monday, Nov. 14, speaking to an array of students, the campus community and general public.

Sponsored by the Distinguished Lecture Fund, Saint’s talk will be at 9 a.m. in the Keathley University Center Theater. He will field audience questions after his address.

In addition to Saint’s previously mentioned endeavors, he is an inventor and engineer. He was born to missionary parents in Ecuador in 1951. The native Waodani Indians killed Saint’s father, Nate, and four other people in 1956. Saint has spent much of his adult life serving indigenous people in Africa and Central and South America.

“He has a compelling personal and professional story to tell and to share with the MTSU and Murfreesboro communities,” said Joe Cooper, an MTSU aerospace graduate student, who has helped coordinate Saint’s campus visit along with aerospace Assistant Professor Nate Callender. “The story of forgiveness and redemption has been told in the book, Through the Gates of Splendor, and in the 2005 movie, End of the Spear.”

Saint and Mincaye Enquedi, who was part of the 1956 attack and believed to have speared Nate Saint and fellow missionary Ed McCully during the attack, have become close. Mincaye, who became a Christian, adopted Steve Saint as his tribal son.

In 1996, Saint established I-TEC, or the Indigenous Technology Education Center, based in Dunnellon, Fla. He did this to develop, produce and distribute unique tools and training for native peoples in frontier areas. The special tools are branded I-See (vision), I-Dent (dental), I-Med (health care), I-Fix (technology training) and I-Fly, which features Maverick, a true flying car/powered parachute) for frontier transportation.

To learn more about I-TEC and Saint, go online to www.itecusa.org. To learn more about Saint’s appearance, call 615-898-5983 or 715-577-0821.

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Media welcomed.

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Mincaye Enquedi, left, and Steve Saint have become close friends. Mincaye is believed to be the man who killed Saint’s father, Nate, in a 1956 attack by Waodani Indians on five missionaries in a remote area of Ecuador.

File photo provided by I-TEC


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