"Christian Heroes: Then & Now have set a new standard of quality in Christian biography. These thrilling true adventures are the best-written biographies for ages 10 and up! One of the five missionaries martyred in Ecuador in 1956, Nate Saint combined his love for airplanes and God in his air-service ministry to isolated missionaries (1923-1956).

"Christian Heroes: Then & Now have set a new standard of quality in Christian biography. These thrilling true adventures are the best-written biographies for ages 10 and up! Without formal education or a missionary organization to back her, a housemaid from England dared to answer God's call to China (1902-1970).

A biography of the life of the Dutch woman who survived imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps to become a Christian missionary.

This series chronicles the exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories of ordinary men and women whose trust in God accomplished extraordinary exploits for His kingdom and glory. Each inspiring account of a man or woman who answered God s call is a testimony to a real-life adventure of faith and determination. Unit Study Guides are available for some titles. Age 10 and up."

"Christian Heroes: Then & Now have set a new standard of quality in Christian biography. These thrilling true adventures are the best-written biographies for ages 10 and up! Martyred in Ecuador in 1956, missionary Jim Elliot lived by his words, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" (1927-1956).

"Christian Heroes: Then & Now have set a new standard of quality in Christian biography. These thrilling true adventures are the best-written biographies for ages 10 and up! William Carey, "the father of modern missions," displayed a single-minded determination to bring the gospel to the people of India (1761-1834).

While many missionaries died within months, this fiery mill worker from Scotland labored in love among the unreached tribes of Africa's Calabar region for thirty-nine years (1848-1915).

Each inspiring true story of a man or woman who answered God's call is a testimony to a real-life adventure of faith and determination. Braving danger and hardship, David Livingstone criss-crossed vast, uncharted regions of Africa to open new frontiers and spread the message of the gospel to all who would listen. (1813-1873) This best-selling, missionary biography series - Christian Heroes: Then & Now - chronicles the exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories of ordinary men and women whose trust in God accomplished extraordinary exploits for His kingdom and glory.

As America's first foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson spent thirty-eight years working in Burma, then one of the most hostile countries on earth. Judson was ignored, mocked, beaten, and tortured, yet he never lost sight of his goal to translate the Bible into the Burmese language. Today, over 150 years after his death, his remains the only translation of the Bible in Burmese.

During WWI, Cameron Townsend was told, "You'll do more good selling Bibles in Central America than you would shooting Germans in France." Cameron began by translating the Bible into the language of his Guatemalan friends. Then he started Wycliffe Bible Translators with the dream of making the Good News available in every language. Since 1942, Wycliffe has translated Scripture into hundreds of languages, spreading God's Word to people everywhere. Ages 10 and up.