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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime
"Her worst nightmare had come true..." As improbable as is seemed, Gladys Aylward was certain God had called her to China as a missionary. But now, at age twenty-seven, she was being dismissed from missionary training school for failing her Bible class.
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Helen Roseveare: Mama Luka
When she arrived at a clinic, usually five hundred, sometimes a thousand people were there to greet her. Helen's reputation as the unstoppable Mama Luka had gone before her - she could do more to heal a sick child or baby than all the witch doctors in the
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Helen Roseveare: Mama Luka
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Hudson Taylor: Deep in the Heart of China
"Unless God helps us, there is no hope," Captain Morris yelled over the roar of the storm. Hudson Taylor had to agree. Indeed the Dumfries might sink this very day and he would never live to see the shores of China, a land whose people he was certain God
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Hudson Taylor: Deep in the Heart of China
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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 Jacob DeShazer: Forgive Your Enemies
Three thousand feet above China, it was Jake's turn to jump. He slid his pistol, knife, and ration packets into the pockets of his leather jacket and edged toward the open hatch of the B-25 bomber. He checked the tension on the harness of his parachute, m
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Jacob DeShazer: Forgive Your Enemies
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Jim Elliot: One Great Purpose
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose"

Jim and Pete turned to see the Auca men, their deadly spears raised, running toward Nate, Ed, and Roger. Jim stood in the river, his hand on his pistol. Should he defend himself
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Jim Elliot: One Great Purpose
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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 Newton: Change of Heart
Each wave stressed the damaged ship, and John wondered how long she could last. He had often imagined how he might die. Perhaps it would be from some tropical disease in Africa or from wounds he received in a brawl with another seaman. Now John was sure h
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW John Newton: Change of Heart
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW John Wesley: The World His Parish
The angry mob demanded that John come out of the house. Soon John found himself being marched in the dark to a neighboring town, flanked by three hundred people. In the next town, the mob grew and its mood turned uglier. "Are you willing to hear me speak
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW John Wesley: The World His Parish
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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 Sundar Singh: Footprints Over the Mountains
As Sundar preached the gospel to the crowd, the monastery guard marched forward and arrested him. Sundar was dragged to the edge of town and hurled to the bottom of an abandoned well. The air was putrid. Desperation and loneliness soon washed over him. Le
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Sundar Singh: Footprints Over the Mountains
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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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