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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: 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...
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.
A Father Read the Bible Every Night โ His Family Saved 800 Lives
Haarlemยท 1944
Dutch watchmaker Casper ten Boom read the Bible to his children nightly for decades.
She Died When He Was 7 โ Her Words Saved Him in a Storm 20 Years Later
North Atlantic Oceanยท 1748
Elizabeth Newton taught her son John Scripture and hymns before dying of tuberculosis when he was 7.
A Mother Prayed 50 Miles Away โ Her Son Converted at That Exact Moment
Yorkshireยท 1849
In June 1849, Amelia Taylor locked herself away to pray for her son. At that exact moment 50 miles away, 17-year-old Hudson read a tract and surrendered...
Eliza Spurgeon: A Mother's Prayer That Haunted Her Children Into Faith
Essexยท 1840s
Eliza Spurgeon lost 9 of 17 children yet faithfully read Scripture every Sunday evening and prayed fierce prayers over her surviving eight.
She Raised 19 Children and Sparked a Global Movement
Epworthยท Early 1700s
Susanna Wesley raised 19 children through devastating loss, dedicating 2 hours daily to prayer and individual time with each child.
She Prayed for 17 Years and Her Son Changed the World
Milanยท 387 AD
Monica prayed for her prodigal son Augustine for 17 years. A bishop told her 'the child of those tears shall never perish.
Monica of Hippo - Mother Never Stopped
Milanยท 386 AD
Monica prayed for her rebellious son Augustine for 17 years as he lived in sin. Her persistence produced one of history's greatest Christian thinkers.
Faith-Driven Businesswoman's Legacy
Dallasยท 1950s-1980s
Single mother Mary Crowley built a $400 million business from her garage during the Great Depression, crediting her faith in Jesus and biblical tithing...
William Cowper - From Despair to the Light of Christ
St Albansยท 1764
In 1764, poet William Cowper found faith while reading Romans in a mental asylum after three suicide attempts. He later wrote beloved hymns with John Newton.
