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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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Jackie Pullinger: Breaking Generational Addiction in Hong Kong's Walled City
Kowloon Walled Cityยท 1966-present
Jackie Pullinger witnessed generational heroin addiction cycles broken supernaturally in Hong Kong's Walled City as addicts were set free without...
Nicky Cruz: From Generational Violence to Radical Love
Brooklynยท 1958
Nicky Cruz, raised under witchcraft and parental abuse in Puerto Rico, became a violent gang warlord in Brooklyn before Jesus shattered the generational...
Ruby Bridges: The Six-Year-Old Who Prayed Her Way Into School
New Orleansยท 1960
Ruby Bridges was six years old when she became the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960.
The University Sprinter Who Would Not Run on Sunday
Edinburghยท 1920s
Eric Liddell, a science student at the University of Edinburgh, refused to run the 100 metres at the 1924 Olympics because the heats fell on a Sunday.
