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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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
