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A long-haired hippie saved at altar call in a 1970s church, depicting a powerful Jesus Movement testimony and Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa conversion.
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Brent Higginson โ€” LSD, Eastern Mysticism, and the Night Everything Changed

Costa Mesaยท 1970s

Born into a home that told him he was good for nothing, Brent Higginson chased meaning through LSD and eastern mysticism. At Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa he met the Holy Spirit, and changed completely.

England: Wesley Whitefield friendship depicted. Two friends, reconciled despite disagreement, near church. Historical Christian friendship.
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John Wesley and George Whitefield: Friends Who Fought and Forgave

Englandยท 1740s

John Wesley and George Whitefield, two of the most influential preachers in history, maintained a deep friendship despite a public theological split that...

Ravensbruck photo: Corrie ten Boom friendship with Betsie. Their friendship in suffering highlights Betsie ten Boom faith.
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Corrie ten Boom and Betsie: Friendship Forged in Darkness

Ravensbruckยท 1944

Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie maintained an extraordinary friendship and faith inside Ravensbruck concentration camp, where their bond became a...

Eric Liddell surrounded by children at Weihsien internment camp in wartime China โ€” an Olympic gold medallist parenting with deep faith
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Eric Liddell: The Olympian Who Chose His Children

Weihsien Campยท 1943-1945

Olympic gold medallist Eric Liddell sends his family to safety during WWII and spends his final years caring for children in a Japanese internment camp,...

Susannah Wesley, John Wesley's mother, raising children for God at their Epworth kitchen table. Methodist movement origin. Christian parenting hist...
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Susannah Wesley: Raising World-Changers in a Crowded Rectory

Epworthยท Early 1700s

Susannah Wesley raises ten surviving children through poverty, house fires, and an absent husband โ€” her disciplined kitchen-table education produces John...

1963 Birmingham protests: Black children face police during the Birmingham Children's Crusade for civil rights in Alabama.
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The Birmingham Children Who Changed America

Birminghamยท 1963

In May 1963, over a thousand Black schoolchildren marched in Birmingham, Alabama, facing fire hoses and police dogs, catalysing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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
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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
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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...

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

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