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Christine Caine in Thessaloniki Greece supporting the A21 Campaign, battling human trafficking.
Modern

Christine Caine and the A21 Campaign Against Human Trafficking

Thessalonikiยท 2008

Christine Caine founded the A21 Campaign after seeing missing persons posters in a Greek airport, growing it into a global anti-trafficking organisation...

Anthony Ray Hinton walking free in Birmingham, Alabama after 30 years on death row โ€” wrongfully convicted, yet forgiving through faith
Modern

Anthony Ray Hinton and the 30 Years That Could Not Be Stolen

Birminghamยท 2015

Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on Alabama death row for murders he did not commit before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 2015.

Triumphant religious freedom medical student after the Fatima hijab case victory. University dress code religious exemption achieved.
Modern

The Student Whose Religious Liberty Case Changed a University

United Statesยท 2024

A medical student challenged her university's discriminatory hijab policy through a religious liberty case, winning a ruling that changed the institution's approach to faith and professional dress codes.

Pastor James Whitfield's church food distribution soars after religious freedom lawsuit. Community outreach expanded to feed more.
Modern

The Pastor Who Went to Court for Feeding People

United Statesยท 2024

Fined for feeding homeless residents, a pastor fought the city and won โ€” but the real victory was that opposition multiplied the ministry from one church to seven, reaching five times more people.

Dublin journalist investigates resurrection. Fact checker faith testimony: Ryan Gallagher, amidst books, ponders evidence. Sceptic finds God evidence.
Modern

How a Fact-Checker Investigated the Resurrection and Could Not Debunk It

Dublinยท 2020-2021

Dublin fact-checker Ryan Gallagher accepted a colleague's challenge to investigate the resurrection using his professional methodology. Three months of rigorous analysis could not debunk it, and a year of wrestling with the implications rewrote his entire framework for truth.

Mumbai: Influencer faith testimony unfolds. Leaving fame for faith, a social media Christian story begins in India.
Modern

She Built a Social Media Empire, Then Tore It Down to Find What Was Real

Mumbaiยท 2022

Influencer Priya Mehta had ten million followers and zero peace. A desperate comment from a teenage girl forced her to confront the emptiness behind her curated life โ€” and a faith community in a Mumbai art gallery showed her what authenticity could look like.

Dr Adaeze Obi singing Amazing Grace in Sierra Leone Ebola ward. Found faith during Ebola outbreak, Hopkins doctor witnesses suffering, embodies grace.
Modern

The Doctor Who Walked into Ebola and Found Grace

Kenemaยท 2014

An infectious disease specialist from Johns Hopkins found faith in a Sierra Leone Ebola ward, singing "Amazing Grace" with a twelve-year-old patient and discovering that grace means being present when everything says leave.

Former Tottenham gang leader Kwame mentoring young people on the same London estate where he once ran the streets โ€” redemption in action
Modern

The Gang Leader Who Became a Youth Worker

Tottenhamยท 2019

A former Tottenham gang leader was transformed through the patient service of a youth worker, then became one himself, finding faith and redemption by mentoring the next generation on the same estate.

Alabama prison chaplain ministers, deepening faith. Keith Williams prison ministry: grace in prison shown through testimony.
Modern

The Prison Chaplain Who Was Set Free

Alabamaยท 2010

A veteran pastor became a prison chaplain expecting to teach, but was profoundly changed by inmates who taught him that grace is a presence you carry, not a concept you explain.

Truett Cathy in Atlanta โ€” the man who closed every Chick-fil-A on Sundays and built a fast-food empire on faith-based conviction
Historical

How Truett Cathy Built Chick-fil-A on a Closed Day

Atlantaยท 1967-2014

Truett Cathy closed every Chick-fil-A on Sundays despite losing 14% of potential revenue โ€” and built the highest-grossing fast-food chain per location in...

R.G. LeTourneau in Longview, Texas โ€” the industrialist who gave away 90% of his income and grew wealthier the more he gave to God
Historical

R.G. LeTourneau and the 90% Give

Longviewยท 1930s-1960s

R.G. LeTourneau, the industrial pioneer who supplied 70% of Allied WWII earthmoving equipment, gave away 90% of his income โ€” and became wealthier the more...

London: Nigerian couple shares their interfaith marriage testimony. Christian Muslim relationship shows God's will.
Modern

He Was Muslim, I Was Christian, and God Was in It

Londonยท 2024

A Nigerian pastor's daughter and a devout Muslim man navigated faith differences, family rejection, and a year of honest prayer. Their interfaith marriage didn't produce a conversion story, but it revealed a God bigger than religious categories.

1860s Dundee jute mill photo: An ordinary moment mission. Mary Slessor, near, before Calabar missionary work. Scotland.
Historical

Mary Slessor: From a Scottish Jute Mill to Missionary in Nigeria

Dundeeยท 1870s

Mary Slessor was eleven years old, working twelve-hour shifts in a Scottish jute mill, when she overheard two older women talking about missionaries in...

France, 1700s: Jean-Pierre de Caussade in garden. Discovering the sacrament present moment, an ordinary moment God revealed.
Historical

He Found God Walking Through a Garden After Lunch

Franceยท 1730s-1740s

Jean-Pierre de Caussade, an 18th-century Jesuit priest, discovered that God was most present to him not during formal prayer but in ordinary transitions โ€”...

Dorchester, MD: Harriet Tubman's ordinary moment guidance while enslaved. Hearing God housework prepared her for the Underground Railroad.
Historical

She First Heard God While Sweeping a Floor

Dorchester Countyยท 1840s

Before she became the legendary conductor of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman was an enslaved woman sweeping floors and carrying water.

Berlin: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian, has a Bible reading encounter God experience. Ordinary moment scripture reading Psalms.
Historical

A Theologian Met God on a Park Bench Reading the Psalms

Berlinยท 1932

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, already an ordained pastor and published theologian, was reading the Psalms on a park bench one afternoon when familiar words...

Lilias Trotter, artist encounter God painting desert wildflowers faith in Algiers. Ordinary moment nature deepened her faith.
Historical

Lilias Trotter: She Heard God While Painting Wildflowers in the Desert

Algiersยท 1890s

Lilias Trotter gave up a career as Victorian England's most promising artist to live in Algeria.

New York City photo: UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, ordinary moment faith revealed. "Markings journal" notes his encounter god commute.
Historical

The UN Secretary-General Who Met God on a Bus

New York Cityยท 1950s

Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations, recorded in his private journal that the defining moment of his life happened on an ordinary...

Sojourner Truth, baby in arms, walks Ulster County road after her escaped slavery testimony. An ordinary moment faith.
Historical

She Met God on a Dirt Road With Nothing

Ulster Countyยท 1826

Isabella Baumfree โ€” later Sojourner Truth โ€” escaped slavery with her infant daughter and walked down an ordinary dirt road in upstate New York.

George Washington Carver at Tuskegee, practicing ordinary moment science, seeking God in the laboratory. Alabama.
Historical

God Answered a Scientist in a Pre-Dawn Laboratory

Tuskegeeยท 1900s-1940s

George Washington Carver, born into slavery and orphaned as an infant, made his greatest scientific discoveries by arriving at his Tuskegee laboratory...

18th-century Susanna Wesley uses apron prayer to find God motherhood. Prayer in chaos, Epworth, England.
Historical

She Found God Under a Kitchen Apron

Epworthยท 1700s-1720s

Susanna Wesley, mother of nineteen in 18th-century England, had no quiet room for prayer.

Edinburgh: Eric Liddell's morning run encounter God, capturing the ordinary moment calling him to find God in running.
Historical

A Morning Training Run That Became a Calling

Edinburghยท 1922

Before the famous Olympic refusal, Eric Liddell was on an ordinary morning training run through Edinburgh when he felt a sudden clarity โ€” that his ability...

Haarlem shop photo: Corrie ten Boom, a watchmaker faith shining. Hearing God daily life in this ordinary, historical moment.
Historical

God Spoke to a Watchmaker While She Wound a Spring

Haarlemยท 1920s

Long before becoming a famous war hero, Corrie ten Boom was winding watch springs in her father's shop when she felt God press something onto her heart โ€”...

Brother Lawrence in a 17th-century Paris kitchen โ€” peeling potatoes and scrubbing pots as acts of worship, practising God's presence
Historical

He Found God Between the Potato Peels

Parisยท 1660s-1691

Brother Lawrence, a 17th-century kitchen worker in a Paris monastery, discovered that peeling potatoes and scrubbing pots could be as sacred as any...

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