Before I went to Ireland for the first time in 2009, I knew exactly two things about St. Patrick: he had a day named after
Harriet Tubman was a slave in Maryland who escaped to freedom in Pennsylvania. She could have fled to safety in Canada, but after years of
How can we raise a “cheerful giver” in an era of automatic withdrawals and online giving? One annual opportunity to model cheerful giving to children,
October 31st, in addition to being Halloween, is known as Reformation Day. In 1517 a German monk named Martin Luther was appalled by the Catholic
Just two years after her arrival in India, missionary Amy Carmichael began wearing a Sari, the traditional Indian dress. From there she began relating to
Christian parents and educators have the privilege of introducing young hearts to Jesus, but let’s face it: This can be a hard job in the
She was only about 21 years old and her faith was new, but the young mother Perpetua was strong in the Lord and ready to
The media cameras rolled in Wales as 150 children and their teachers gathered to watch faith hero Corrie ten Boom’s story last month as part
If heroes are people who sacrifice themselves for the good of others, Adoniram and Ann Judson fit the description. Nineteenth-century Americans considered them Christian missionary
Johann George Ferdinand Müller had a tumultuous adolescence. Born in Kroppenstaedt, Prussia (modern day Germany) on September 27, 1805 to Johann and Sophie Müller, the