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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma
There are no closed nations when men and women freely choose to lay down their lives for the sake of the gospel.
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Betty Greene: Wings to Serve
Betty Greene coaxed her Grumman seaplane to two thousand feet... Suddenly, silence - total silence. The plane engine had stopped! Her passengers gasped, but Betty knew she must remain calm. They had only one slim chance for survival: the twisting jungle r
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Betty Greene: Wings to Serve
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW C.S. Lewis: Master Storyteller
Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW C.S. Lewis: Master Storyteller
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language
The Cakchiquel man became indignant when Cam offered him a tract in Spanish. "Do you have one in Cakchiquel?" he asked. "There are none, I'm sorry," replied Cam. "Well," retorted the man, "if your God is so great, why can't he speak my language?"
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Charles Mulli: We Are Family
For three hours, Charles sat in the car on the side of the road. “God, show me what to do. I will obey what You tell me,” he found himself praying. “I’m willing to give up everything You’ve blessed me with. Use me to reach those kids, Lord. They are just
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Clarence Jones: Mr. Radio
Returning to Radio HCJB, Clarence brought up the rear as the men rode in the dark along the narrow horse trail carved from the mountainside. Suddenly Clarence's horse stumbled and slid over the trail's edge, taking him with it. As horse and rider fell tow
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Count Zinzendorf: Firstfruit
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Inspiring true stories of men and women who answered God's call.

A wealthy Irish girl rescuing children in India? An English maid preaching the gospel in China? An American pilot serving missionaries in Ecuador?
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Count Zinzendorf: Firstfruit
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW David Bussau: Facing the World Head-on
David listened to what the others said and thought for a few moments. He didn't often talk to the other boys about what he was thinking, but this time he opened his mouth and said, "I'm going to be a millionaire and retire by the time I'm forty!"
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW David Bussau: Facing the World Head-on
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW David Livingstone: Africa's Trailblazer
The lion's jaws gripped David Livingstone's arm. Razor-sharp teeth pierced his flesh as the lion savagely shook David in the air like a rag doll. A gunshot ran out. "God help us," David moaned, as the lion dropped him and turned to charge David's friend M
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW David Livingstone: Africa's Trailblazer
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Florence Young: Mission Accomplished
A rip current overturned the whaleboat with eight Kanaka Christians aboard. Only three of the men could swim, and the others clung to the upturned boat. Sharks circled the three as they struggled to get to shore. The three survived, but the others could n
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CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Florence Young: Mission Accomplished
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Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Helen Roseveare: Mama Luka
Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Helen Roseveare: Mama Luka
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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 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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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
Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW John Newton: Change of Heart
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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
Janet and Geoff Benge CHRISTIAN HEROES: THEN & NOW Klaus-Dieter John: Hope in the Land of the Incas
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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 Nate Saint: On a Wing and a Prayer
Seven-year-old Nate Saint peered wide-eyed over the cockpit of his older brother Sam's Challenger biplane. The eastern Pennsylvania countryside was spread out neatly below him like a fine tablecloth. Nate was determined to remember every moment of this fi
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