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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...

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.

Historical photo: Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector, serving without weapons on Hacksaw Ridge, Okinawa. Medal of Honor recipient.
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Desmond Doss: The Soldier Who Saved 75 Men Without a Weapon

Okinawaยท 1945

Desmond Doss saved 75 wounded soldiers at Hacksaw Ridge without a weapon, praying "Lord, help me get one more." First conscientious objector Medal of Honor.

19th-century image: John Paton missionary in Vanuatu, receiving missionary protection. Animals alert danger near Tanna village.
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The Missionary Who Slept While Cobras Guarded His Door

Tannaยท 1860s

Missionary John G. Paton on the island of Tanna survived multiple assassination attempts in the 1860s, protected by what attackers described as shining...

Dogs howled and refused to board as the Titanic set sail from Southampton โ€” while pastor John Harper prepared to preach until the very end
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The Dog That Wouldn't Board the Titanic

Southampton to North Atlanticยท April 1912

Documented accounts of dogs exhibiting unusual distress before the Titanic sailed, alongside the story of pastor John Harper, who used his final moments...

Brave missionary Mary Slessor in Calabar, Nigeria. Witnessing God in the jungle and saving twins.
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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,...

Rees Howells in mission Africa during the influenza pandemic. Gazaland saw life through fasting intercession.
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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.

Elderly Dutch watchmaker Casper ten Boom reads Bible to family in 1940s Haarlem home that became the famous Hiding Place story sanctuary
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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.

1748 North Atlantic: Young John Newton's storm conversion, fueled by childhood faith seeds from his mother. Amazing Grace origin story.
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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.

Yorkshire, 1849 โ€” Amelia Taylor locks herself away to pray and at that exact moment, 50 miles away, her son Hudson surrenders to God
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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 mother reading Scripture in Essex, England. Victorian family prayer testimony; praying for children faith.
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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.

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