Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Lottie Moon. Dear Mollie, You can’t believe what is happening here in China. . . . Actually, what Mollie can’t believe is that her best friend, Ida, and her family left Virginia to live in a “heathen” country. What about marrying handsome Southern husbands? Going to women’s college together? However, Mollie’s frustration slowly turns to fascination as Ida’s letters describe her exciting life among the Chinese—sea ...

ARRIESGANDO LA GRACIAAmando a nuestros familiares y amigos gais como lo haría JesúsAl ser una de las personas que en 1987 ayudó a escribir un libro que proponía la terapia reparativa para las personas homosexuales, fue con amor desgarrante que mi esposa y yo no dejamos ir a nuestra hija cuando ella salió del clóset hace 16 años. Primeramente, oramos para que Dios la cambiara, luego para que él lograra su propósito en la vida de ell...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing Harriet Tubman. Living as a slave with her family on an old Maryland plantation in 1853, twelve-year-old Rosebud Jackson had been helping her mother with the cooking for the Big House as long as she could remember. Rosebud’s world seemed like an endless pile of pots and pans to wash, food to prepare, and bread to bake. Her father worked long days in the fields while her fifteen-year-old brother Isaac was the stabl...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing John G. Paton. Working at the docks is a dangerous occupation--especially for someone who doesn't know how to swim. But it's all Kevin Gilmore can do to keep himself and his ailing mother afloat. When Kevin is suddenly fired one day, their lives are dealt a terrible blow. The next thing he knows, his mother is dead, and he's on his own. All Kevin has of value are the one hundred shares he and his mother bought fro...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes. Introducing George Muller. By the time Curly Roddy was twelve years old, he’d already survived six years as a homeless orphan on the cruel streets of London in the 1870s. He slept in dustbins and ate orange peels when he could find them. Sometimes he earned a few coins by singing and doing acrobatics in pubs. He had perfected his skills at snatching purses and picking pockets. But when Curly overheard that a church wa...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes.Introducing William Seymour.Jerry Newman doesn’t mean to keep getting into trouble—it just sort of happens. But when a practical joke goes wrong, burning down a church in his small east Texas town, Jerry’s widowed mother quickly sends him to live with his journalist uncle in Los Angeles. Jerry is secretly pleased—not only to avoid being punished for his crime but also to live in California . . . the end of the earth!On...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes.Introducing Festo Kivengere.With the help of Uganda’s famous evangelist Festo Kivengere, Yacobo Kabaza and his family move to the Ugandan capital, Kampala, where Yacobo’s father will be the new driver for Archbishop Luwum. As part of the cathedral’s upcoming Centennial celebration, the archbishop asks Yacobo, an aspiring author, to write a play about the legendary three boys who became Uganda’s first Christian martyrs. The you...

When Living Together in a World Falling Apart was first published in 1974, tensions in society—an unpopular war, racial divisions, fearful economics, the seeming futility of “success,” and widespread alienation—were not addressed in most churches. Racism still thrived, worship meant three hymns and you’re out, and relationships had deteriorated to weekly handshakes. But many believed—based on New Testament descriptions of the early church—that this couldn't be all God planned for his peopl...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes.Introducing Charles Loring Brace.For Kip O'Reilly, life on the streets doesn't seem all that bad. At least he and the other rovers have each other, and that's more than enough to keep them happy--well, as long as they can steal to survive. Just selling newspapers doesn't quite cut it. When Kip is finally caught stealing one morning, he's sent to jail. Fortunately for Kip, Rev. Brace of the Children's Aid Society bails him out,...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes.Introducing John WesleyNed Carter, an eighteenth-century boy of thirteen, has been working in the dangerous coal mines in northern England since he was five. He desperately wants to save his little brother Pip from the same fate. Like so many poor English families of the day, even the young children of the Carter family must earn money to pay the bills. Now Pip is turning five and Ned must find a way to prevent his parents fro...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes.Introducing Nate Saint.Eleven-year-old Niwa is from Ecuador’s Huaorani tribe, better known as the Auca tribe, which is known for killing outsiders. The Aucas trust no one, not even neighboring tribes, so when young Niwa is outlawed by his own people for angering another tribe, not even his family will protect him.Then a huge "woodbee" flies overhead, dropping gifts to Niwa’s tribe from pilot Nate Saint and the other me...

Historical fiction about great Christian heroes.Introducing Florence Nightingale.After their father dies, Robbie Robinson and his older brother, Peter, join the British army in order to make a living for their family. At first, army life is exciting, even fun. Then in 1854, they are sent to Russia to right in the Crimean War—Peter as a member of the famous Light Horse Brigade and twelve-year-old Robbie as a drummer boy. But the brothers are separated during the doomed charg...