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Mary Slessor: Barefoot in the Jungle, Saving Lives
Calabarยท 1876-1915
Mary Slessor left the slums of Dundee for the jungles of Calabar, Nigeria, where she spent nearly forty years walking barefoot through the rainforest,...
How Rees Howells Fasted Through a Plague and Nobody Died
Gazalandยท 1918
During the 1918 influenza pandemic, Welsh missionary Rees Howells fasted and interceded for his district in southern Africa.
J.C. Penney Lost $40 Million, Cried Out to God, and Rebuilt Everything
Battle Creekยท 1929-1951
J.C. Penney lost his $40 million fortune in the 1929 crash, hit bottom in a sanitarium, cried out to God in a chapel, then rebuilt to over $1 billion by 1951.
Rich DeVos
Grand Rapidsยท 1926
Rich DeVos, Amway co-founder, built his business empire on Christian faith and generosity. His heart transplant in 1997 deepened his trust in God's grace.
J.C. Penney's Golden Rule Transformation
Kemmererยท 1950s
J.C. Penney experienced profound spiritual transformation during the Great Depression when financial ruin led him to encounter God at Battle Creek...
A Courageous Stand
Haarlemยท 1944
Dutch watchmaker Casper ten Boom risked everything to shelter Jewish families during WWII, demonstrating extraordinary faith and courage.
A Beacon of Faith
Haarlemยท 1944
84-year-old watchmaker Casper ten Boom risked his life hiding Jews during WWII, demonstrating unwavering faith in God's protection even unto death in...
Two Swedes in Brazil
Belรฉmยท 1910-1933
Two Swedish immigrants in 1910 obeyed God's prophetic word about 'Parรก' Brazil, founding what became the world's largest Pentecostal denomination with...
William Wade Harris: The Black Elijah
Liberia and Ivory Coastยท 1910-1929
William Wade Harris received a divine vision in a Liberian prison in 1910. In just 18 months, he baptized over 100,000 converts across West Africa.
I Love Idi Amin: Festo Kivengere's
Kigeziยท 1936-1988
Ugandan Bishop Festo Kivengere chose radical forgiveness over bitterness when dictator Idi Amin murdered his friend Archbishop Janani Luwum, writing 'I...
Evelyn Waugh: Satirist Found the Church
Englandยท 1930
Brilliant satirist Evelyn Waugh shocked literary England by converting to Catholicism in 1930. His conversion would shape his life and greatest work.
Jacques and Raissa Maritain
Franceยท 1906
Two French philosophy students Jacques and Raissa Maritain made a suicide pact but found life-changing Catholic faith instead through Leon Bloy.
