Janet Benge

Laura stared at the black cloud blotting out the sun. The cloud was unlike anything she had ever seen. As it got closer, it made a strange noise, like hail pelting the ground. Suddenly the sky began to rain grasshoppers. The bugs clung to Laura's hair and clothes and peered at her with bulging eyes. Soon they began destroying Papa's crops. From the big woods of Wisconsin to the Indian country of the Great Plains, new adventures and landscapes filled...

A biography of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Canadian missionary to China, Jonathan Goforth.

Biography of a missionary who endured many hardships travelling to and working in 19th century China.

Seventeen-year-old Dwight Lyman Moody changed his name, moved to Boston, and began pursuing dreams of becoming a wealthy businessman. But God had other plans for him. Instead of business, evangelism was to be his life's work. D.L. devoted his life to proclaiming the gospel, serving the poor, and mentoring fellow ministers. A leader of great vision, D. L. Moody served his fellow man through Civil War outreach, his Sunday school and church, and revival...

A biography of the Dutch missionary Brother Andrew who became noted for smuggling Bibles into communist-controlled Eastern Europe.

A profile of twentieth-century American missionary to the Auca Indians of Ecuador, who, along with four others, lost their lives trying to bring the Gospel to the people of Ecuador's jungle.

A brief biography of the African American scientist who overcame tremendous hardship to make unusual and important discoveries in the field of agriculture.

Recount the life story of the German minister who opened the orphanages in Great Britain by great faith and passion.

«À moins que Dieu nous vienne en aide, il n'y a aucun espoir», s'écria le capitaine Morris, couvrant de sa voix le grondement de la tempête. Hudson Taylor ne pouvait qu'être d'accord. Le Dumfries allait peut-être couler ce jour même et il ne vivrait pas pour voir les rivages de la Chine, où il était pourtant certain que Dieu l'avait appelé.

Mais Hudson a survécu à ce premier et périlleux voyage vers sa Chine

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