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John Muir: Finding God in Every Leaf and Waterfall
Yosemite Valley· 1860s-1910s
John Muir, raised under severe religious discipline in Scotland, found his deepest sense of God not in his father's sermons but in the forests of...
Sundar Singh: Meeting Jesus on a Himalayan Road
Himalayas· 1900s-1920s
Sundar Singh, a Sikh teenager who burned the Bible, encountered Jesus in a vision and spent thirty years walking barefoot through the Himalayas preaching...
Jim Elliot: The Jungle That Became an Altar
Ecuador
Jim Elliot sensed his calling in the mountains of Oregon and found his deepest communion with God in the jungles of Ecuador, where he and four companions...
Jentezen Franklin Led His Church Through a Corporate Fast and Everything Changed
Gainesville· 2001
In 2001, megachurch pastor Jentezen Franklin launched an annual twenty-one-day corporate fast at Free Chapel.
Franklin Hall Fasted and Ignited the Healing Revival of 1947
San Diego· 1946-1947
Pastor Franklin Hall organized corporate fasting gatherings in San Diego in 1946 and published a book on fasting that influenced William Branham, Oral...
Mahesh Chavda Fasted for Forty Days and His Ministry Was Transformed
United States· 1977
Pastor Mahesh Chavda completed a forty-day fast in 1977 and experienced a dramatic shift in his healing ministry.
How Corporate Fasting Built the Korean Church into the Largest in the World
Seoul· 1953-2000
South Korean Christians built a culture of corporate fasting and prayer mountains from the 1950s onward.
Bill Bright Fasted for Forty Days and Launched a Movement of Two Million
Orlando· 1994
In 1994, Campus Crusade founder Bill Bright completed a forty-day fast at age seventy-three and felt God call two million Americans to fast for spiritual...
How Rees Howells Fasted Through a Plague and Nobody Died
Gazaland· 1918
During the 1918 influenza pandemic, Welsh missionary Rees Howells fasted and interceded for his district in southern Africa.
Lou Engle Called 400,000 People to Fast and Pray on the National Mall
Washington· 2000
In September 2000, Lou Engle gathered an estimated 400,000 people on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
How John Hyde Fasted Until a Revival Swept Through India
Sialkot· 1904
Missionary John Hyde fasted for thirty days before the 1904 Sialkot Convention in India, sparking a revival that brought hundreds to faith and transformed...
They Adopted Three Daughters — Then Their World Collapsed in a Driveway
Franklin· 2008
Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman adopted 3 daughters from China. In May 2008, youngest daughter Maria was accidentally killed in their driveway.
