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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW D.L. Moody: Bringing Souls to Christ
D.L. stood his ground against the angry father. "I broke the jug and poured out the whiskey for the good of yourself and your family," he said. "If I am to be thrashed, let me pray for you all before you do that."

Seventeen-year-old Dwight Lyman Moody
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW D.L. Moody: Bringing Souls to Christ
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans
"God has given me a mission field right here, and I will live and die in it." George Müller stared at the beggar girl. She was no older than five and was piggybacking her little brother. Her mother had died in the cholera epidemic sweeping England. Her fa
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW George Muller: The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts
Ida stamped her foot. Her friends were wrong. "I will not be a missionary to India like my parents!" she retorted. "Don't any of you say I will be, because I won't - never, ever, ever." Ida had never forgotten the faces of starving Indian children. She ha
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Isobel Kuhn: On the Roof of the World
A fellow missionary had said, “When you get to China, all the scum of your nature will rise to the top.” It surely had, mused Belle. The food, the fleas, the filth, the exhausting mountain paths, and so many other transitions to missionary life had tested
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Isobel Kuhn: On the Roof of the World
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW John Flynn: Into the Never Never
As John stared at a map of Australia in his office, he wondered how he would ever raise enough money and recruit enough staff to bring physical and spiritual help to all who needed it. It seemed an impossible dream, yet one that he refused to give up.
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW John Flynn: Into the Never Never
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW John Williams: Messenger of Peace
"Hold on!" the Polynesian rower yelled, but the giant wave crashed over the rowboat, flinging John into the surging water. John gasped for air as the undercurrent pulled him down. Frantically he thrashed his arms and kicked his legs, but it was no use. I
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW John Williams: Messenger of Peace
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Jonathan Goforth: An Open Door in China
"What would make you come back?" the Chinese people asked. "What is so important that you would risk your life to tell us?" Jonathan eagerly explained to them what had brought him back to China, even after so many foreigners had been killed: the need to s
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Jonathan Goforth: An Open Door in China
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Klaus-Dieter John: Hope in the Land of the Incas
It was totally dark. The lights in the city were turned off, and there were no street lamps, no neon signs, and no extra glow in shop windows. Klaus noticed that theirs was the only car on the road. How would they slip by the checkpoint? Klaus glanced at
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Klaus-Dieter John: Hope in the Land of the Incas
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Loren Cunningham: Into All the World
Without warning, a huge map of the world appeared in Loren's mind's eye. Loren blinked, but the map was still there. Soon it was covered with ocean waves beating on every shore. Then the waves turned into the faces of young people flowing over every natio
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Loren Cunningham: Into All the World
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Lottie Moon: Giving Her All for China
Ten-year-old Lottie Moon had seen too much bitterness and gossip among churchgoers to want anything to do with religion or God. In fact, if there was a single way to waste a life, Lottie told herself, being a missionary was it.
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Lottie Moon: Giving Her All for China
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar
Mary Slessor pondered David Livingstone's words, "I don't care where we go as long as we go forward." I'm not going anywhere, Mary mused. I'm twenty-seven years old. I work in a cotton mill twelve hours a day. God, Mary prayed, send me somewhere, anywhere
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Mildred Cable: Through the Jade Gate
Standing atop a mound of rocks, Mildred wrapped her blue padded jacket tightly around her and squinted against the sand-laden wind. To her right the Great Wall wound east for fourteen hundred miles until it reached the Yellow Sea. Before her lay the rocks
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Mildred Cable: Through the Jade Gate
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Norman Grubb : Mission Builder
Norman read the first sentence of the letter again: “The whole country round seems to be really greedy to hear the Word of God, many are deciding for Christ.” As he read, he heard a clear voice inside his head say, “That’s where you are to go.” A shiver r
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Norman Grubb : Mission Builder
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Rachel Saint: A Star in the Jungle
Aboard the Aquitania, Rachel became aware of something strange happening to her. It was as if she were not on the deck of the ship anymore but was instead in a jungle clearing, looking at a group of brown-skinned, half-naked people. The people beckoned fo
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Rachel Saint: A Star in the Jungle
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Richard Wurmbrand: Love Your Enemies
As he tried to think calmly about faith, Richard realized that he didn’t want anything to do with Christianity, even if it did turn out to be true. He could only imagine life as a Christian Jew, and what he imagined was awful. No one in his or her right m
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Richard Wurmbrand: Love Your Enemies
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Rowland Bingham: Into Africa's Interior
The thought of a land with not one Christian and not one missionary haunted Rowland. Images of cannibals and slaves pushed away sleep, and the stranger's words "are you prepared to go if God calls you?" echoed over and over as he turned in his bed. Was he
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Rowland Bingham: Into Africa's Interior
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Samuel Zwemer: The Burden of Arabia
Sam felt his heart thumping as the two Bedouin men walked toward him. The men's menacing spears were pulled back over their shoulders, ready to thrust at Sam at any moment. From the grim look on their faces, the men seemed intent on killing someone.
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Samuel Zwemer: The Burden of Arabia
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Wilfred Grenfell: Fisher of Men
The icy Arctic cold stabbed at Wilfred's fingers and toes. A howling wind was pushing the ice pan he was stranded on out to sea - and with it hope of rescue. His clothes, soaked when his dogsled fell through the ice, were now frozen. Lying near his sled d
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Wilfred Grenfell: Fisher of Men
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW William Booth: Soup, Soap, and Salvation
William burst into the house. "I have found my destiny!" he shouted. "I have found a place where there is so much human misery in such a small space that there is a lifetime's worth of work there for me!"
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW William Booth: Soup, Soap, and Salvation
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Bennie Rhodes Christopher Columbus - Sower series
Risking shipwreck and failure, he sought to spread the gospel by discovering new lands.
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Christopher Columbus - Sower series
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Wendy Lawton Courage to Run - Daughters of the Faith Series
Daughters of the Faith: Ordinary Girls Who Lived Extraordinary Lives.

Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a Maryland plantation in the 1800’s. She trusts in God, but her faith is tested at every turn. Should she obey her masters or listen to her conscie
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Courage to Run - Daughters of the Faith Series
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Irene Howat Danger on the Streets of Gold - Adoniram Judson
Popular and collectable Trailblazer series
America’s first overseas missionary

Even when Adoniram abandoned his belief in God and travelled far from him loving family, God had plans to bring him home and then send him to the other side of the world –
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Danger on the Streets of Gold - Adoniram Judson
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Vance Christie David Livingston - Africa's Greatest Explorer
Vance Christie David Livingston - Africa's Greatest Explorer
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David Livingston - Africa's Greatest Explorer
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John Hudson Tiner David Livingstone - Sower Series
Experience the adventures of a medical doctor who became a missionary and daring explorer in South Africa, to God's glory.
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David Livingstone - Sower Series
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