Rebel to Redeemed…Sharing HIS Kind of Love
Often we think of heroes of the faith as living a long time ago, but there are many examples of heroes of the faith living in recent times. One of these is Betty Ann Olsen. She was born to Walter and Elizabeh Olsen, missionaries, on October 22, 1934 in Bouake, Côte d’Ivoire, Africa. While attending high school 800 miles away […]
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Today ministers have sound systems, radio and TV Cameras to help them spread the gospel. However, in the early days of the United States, ministers did not have all of these luxuries. Most ministers traveled by horseback. One such minister was Francis Asbury, known as the father of the Methodist Church in America. Francis Asbury was born on August 20 […]
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George Müller opened the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He cared for over 10,000 orphans in his lifetime. George Müller was born on September 27, 1805 in Kroppenstedt, Prussia {modern day Germany}. He was the son of Johann Friederich and Eleonore Hasse Müller. His father worked as a tax collector. He had an older brother and after his mother […]
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To understand the history and faith of Lady Jane Grey, we need a mini history lesson. King Henry VII died in 1509. He was the father of several children including Margaret, Mary and King Henry VIII. We all know the song of King Henry VIII having six wives. He had three children, each from a different wife. His daughters, Mary […]
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Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand became founders of the Voice of the Martyrs. Richard Wurmbrand was born on March 24, 1909 in Bucharest, Romania. His father died when he was nine and the family returning home from Istanbul, where they had lived a short time. As an adolescent, he was sent to study Marxism in Moscow, became a Comintern {Communist International} […]
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Darlene Rose showed unwavering and remarkable faith under circumstances that many of us would falter under. She was born as Darlene Mae McIntosh on May 17, 1917. At the age of nine, she gave her heart to the Lord. A year later, she felt God was calling her to a life in missions. That night she promised Jesus, “Lord, I […]
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Katharine Drexel is the first person born as a citizen of the United States to have been canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She was born Catherine Mary Drexel on November 26, 1858 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Francis and Hannah Langstroth Drexel. Sadly, she never really knew her mother, who died five weeks […]
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Samuel Kaboo Morris was a Liberian prince who converted to Christianity at around the age of 14. He was born in 1873 Liberia. Little is known about his early life, other than he was the oldest son of the tribal chief. He was captured when his tribe was attacked by the Grebos when he was fourteen. He was used as […]
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Father Damien brought the message of Christ to the people of Hawaii as he worked with the lepers there. He is known as the Apostle of the Lepers. He was born Jozef De Veuster on January 3, 1840 in Tremelo, Brabant, Belgium. He was the youngest of seven children born to Joannes Franciscus and Anne-Catherine Wouters De Veuster. Instead […]
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Dante Alighieri is considered one of the finest poets Italy ever produced, one of the greatest poets of world literature and the “Father of the Italian language”. Dante Alighieri was born around 1265 in Florence, Italy. He was the son of Alaghiero and Bella, who died when he was about ten years old. At the age of 12, he was […]
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Luther Rice was a missionary who was vital in establishing the Southern Baptist Convention. Luther Rice was born on March 25, 1783 in Northborough, Massachusetts. He was the son of Amos and Sarah Graves Rice. While at Williams College, he became part of a group known as “the Brethern”. He sailed alongside missionary Adoniram Judson to Calcutta, India on February […]
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Adoniram Judson was the first foreign missionary sent from the United States. Judson was born on August 7, 1788 in Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Adoniram and Abigail Brown Judson. He grew up hearing about and learning about Christ from his congregational minister father. At the age of nineteen, he graduated valedictorian from College of Rhode […]
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Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen was a Luthern missionary to the Batak in Sumatra. He was born in the Nordstrand peninsula on February 6, 1834. In 1846, a horse cart rolled over his legs and crushed them. The doctors said he would never walk again, but he prayed for recovery and three years later he was able to walk again. He […]
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Julian of Norwich was a Christian mystic and theologian. Her Revelations of Divine Love, written around 1395, is the first book in the English language known to have been written by a woman. Little is known about her life. She is believed to have been born around November 8, 1342, based on her writings. While Julian was a common […]
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Gladys May Aylward was a Christian missionary to China. Her story became well known from the book, The Small Woman by Alan Burgess and movie, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, written and made about her in the late 1950s. Gladys Aylward was born on February 24, 1902 in North London, England. She was the daughter of Thomas and […]
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Robert Jermain Thomas was a Welsh Protestant Christian missionary to China. He was born around 1839 in Llanover, Wales. His father was a non-conformist minister and he would later follow in his footsteps. He married Caroline Godfrey in 1863, and she died of a miscarriage two years later. She is said to have died only “four months after their arrival […]
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Sadhu Sundar Singh into a Sikh family in northern India on September 3, 1889. As a child, his mother took him to a holy man where he learned English and about God. But, life changed for him when he turned fourteen and his mother died. He was pitched into a world of violence and took his anger out on […]
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Nicolaus Zinzendorf was a major figure of the 18th Century protestantism. He was born on May 26, 1700 in Dresden, Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire {modern day Austria}. He was born to a noble family and his great-grandfather was made an Imperial Count. But, his grandfather, chose to emigrate to Franconia rather than convert to Catholocism. His father was […]
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Hans Poulsen Egede, a Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary, is known as the Apostle of Greenland. Hans Egede was born on January 31, 1686 to a civil servant in Harstad, Norway. His uncle was a clergyman in the Lutheran Church, who taught him and his grandfather was a vicar in southern Zealand, Denmark. In 1704, he entered the University of Copenhagen where […]
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Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus {Jesuits} and became its first Superior General. He was born Íñigo López de Loyola in Gipuzkoa, Basque County, Spain around October 23, 1491. His baptisimal name of Íñigo was after St. Enecus. He was the youngest of thirteen children and his mother died shortly after his birth. He was born into a […]
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