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The Scientist Who Could Not Outrun the Question
Chapel Hillยท Late 1970s
Francis Collins, an atheist PhD student who became a medical student at the University of North Carolina, found faith after patients challenged his...
The Teacher Who Chose the Darkest Classroom
Hong Kongยท 1966
Jackie Pullinger, a music graduate from London, sailed to Hong Kong in 1966 and began teaching in the Kowloon Walled City.
The Medical Student Who Followed the Evidence
Norfolkยท Early 2000s
Nabeel Qureshi, a devout Muslim pre-med student at Old Dominion University, spent three years investigating Christianity through a campus friendship with...
The Priest Who Finally Felt What He Had Been Preaching
Aldersgate Streetยท May 1738
John Wesley, an ordained Anglican priest who had spent over a decade in ministry without a personal experience of faith, felt his "heart strangely warmed"...
Katie Davis Majors: A Teenager Who Adopted 13 Children in Uganda
Jinjaยท 2007-present
Katie Davis Majors went to Uganda at 18 for a gap year and never returned. She adopted 13 children and founded Amazima Ministries, serving hundreds more.
Three Days Inside a Fish: The Prophet Who Ran and Got Swallowed
Mediterranean Seaยท c. 780 BC
The prophet Jonah ran from God's assignment to Nineveh, was thrown overboard in a storm, and was swallowed by a great fish for three days -- where the...
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...
When a Donkey Saw What a Prophet Couldn't
Moab (modern Jordan)ยท c. 1400 BC
The biblical account of Balaam's donkey, who saw the angel of the Lord and saved her master's life three times while he beat her for disobedience -- a...
Jentezen Franklin Led His Church Through a Corporate Fast and Everything Changed
Gainesvilleยท 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 Diegoยท 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...
How Corporate Fasting Built the Korean Church into the Largest in the World
Seoulยท 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
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...