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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,...
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...
Bill Bright Fasted for Forty Days and Launched a Movement of Two Million
Orlandoยท 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
Gazalandยท 1918
During the 1918 influenza pandemic, Welsh missionary Rees Howells fasted and interceded for his district in southern Africa.
How Esther Called a Corporate Fast and Saved a Nation
Susaยท 5th century BC
Queen Esther called a three-day corporate fast across the Jewish community in Persia.
Her Husband Was Killed by a Tribe โ She Moved In With Her Baby
Ecuadorยท 1958
After her husband Jim was speared to death by the Huaorani tribe in 1956, Elisabeth Elliot stayed in Ecuador and moved INTO the tribal village with her...
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.
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...
Dan Wooding: The Fleet Street Journalist Whose Story Wouldn't Let Him Go
Londonยท 1970s-1980s
Dan Wooding was a Fleet Street tabloid journalist (Sunday People, Sunday Mirror). A life-threatening gangster story brought him back to faith.
Heidi and Rolland Baker: When Two Callings Collide
Dana Pointยท 1980
Heidi Baker received a radical missionary calling at 16. When she met Rolland, they shared the same God-given vision.
Kira Fontana: Two Prophetic Visions, One Husband
United Statesยท 2020
Kira Fontana asked God to be her matchmaker. Two women independently had visions of the same man named Nic.
Priscilla Shirer: The Progressive Revelation of a Prayed-For Husband
Dallasยท 1999
Priscilla Shirer prayed specifically for a husband with certain character qualities.