Youth Biography

Product Description If you were an orphan in the city of Bristol around 1850 then life was hard but if you got a place in Ashley Down, one of George Muller's children's homes, the future was bright. At Ashley Down you were really looked after. It...

Product Description Encourage your child to learn about George Whitefield, from his early beginnings as a hopeful actor in England through to his death in Newburyport, Massachusetts. A renowned Anglican preacher of the eighteenth century,...

From one old woman's prayer a young girl was brought to faith, a missionary was sent to Africa and then a church was born from among the people of Central Africa. Missionaries from the West came with the message of Jesus Christ - but it was the men and...

An autobiographical account of the boyhood of Ohiyesa, also known as Charles Eastman, a member of the Dakota nation. Edited and illustrated by Charlene Notgrass. Paperback.   Used for Notgrass "America the Beautiful" curriculum. Grade Level: 5th -...

Heroes of the Cross: Dr. Frederick Baedeker, Horace Underwood, and Arthur Neve of Kashmir.The All for Jesus Series features biographies of martyrs, missionaries, and Christian Heroes. Good biographies help build character and holy idealism by...

Emma and Alex have had nothing to eat all day and there is no food in the kitchen or the store cupboard. Their mother has no money to buy food and all that she can do is pray that somehow, someone will send them something to eat. But in the morning...

As the pirates near the helpless ship they raise their grappling irons and prime their cannons for battle. The captain stands ready to defend his vessel and the lives of the people on board. The missionaries go to their cabins to pray. Can anyone stop...

It was the longest drought that anyone in the county had ever seen. Everyone was praying for rain. The fields were dry, the animals were thirsty and everyone was really hot. But only one little girl really believed that God would answer and she taught...

A hostile army is rapidly approaching the little Baltic village. Karl and his mother are in fear of their lives. Karl barricades the door to the cottage but his mother reads the Bible. In the end God uses a snowdrift to protect them from the enemy. So...

The mountains are dark and looming as the lightening splits across the sky. The forest offers shelter and in the distance the traveller spots a lamp. Rushing towards the door he doesn't realise that someone has planned this journey - there is a woman in...

Product Description Hudson Taylor was a sickly child. He was often ill and had very poor eyesight. But God chose him to evangelize the Chinese. So at the age of 21 Hudson Taylor left the United Kingdom to sail half way round the world to China...

Product Description Isobel Kuhn wasn't always a missionary--she wasn't always a Christian. Her teachers discouraged a belief in God and promoted evolution. Isobel sometimes doubted whether there was anybody there at all to hear her prayers. "They...