Arriving in London in the 1880s, orphans Jack and Amy find themselves the prey of the worst elements of society until they receive aid from William and Catherine Booth and their Salvation Army people.
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"Throughout history, steadfast Christians have paved the way for dramatic changes in the world. The Christian heroes from the Trailblazer books had the courage and strength to stand up for the God they believe in. Their amazing stories of hope and adventure, described through the...
In the 1860s two African boys are taken captive and mistakenly left in the care of David Livingstone, whom they accompany on his quest to find a way to stop the slave trade and to open the interior of Africa to missionaries.
After coming to Wittenberg to seek an education, Karl Schumacher becomes a student of Dr. Martin Luther and, when the latter is declared a heretic, Karl accompanies him when he travels to Worms to defend his views.
A Muslim boy, in Morocco, risks his parent's wrath when he accepts pictures of Jesus from a Christian missionary named Maude Cary.
Teenage Elizabeth Tilley, one of the colonists landing at New Plymouth on the Mayflower, sees her parents die from illness and wonders if God is punishing her for the terrible secret she carries.
When he and his mother join the Fourpaugh Circus in 1893, fourteen-year-old Casey Watkins is certain that their lives will change for the better, but the real change comes when they meet the charismatic evangelist D.L. Moody.
Presents biographies of missionaries, evangelists, and other Christian heroes who worked courageously to share the Gospel with others.
In 1888, change arrives in a small village in Calabar, Nigeria in the form of a courageous missionary named Mary.
Sarah tries to smuggle a New Testament into England in order to save the life of William Tyndale, a man imprisoned for translating the Bible into English.
A young slave girl on a Maryland plantation is led to freedom by Harriet Tubman.
In 1854, after being wounded while serving as a drummer in the British army in the Crimean War, twelve-year-old Robbie Robinson is cared for by Florence Nightingale and becomes involved in her efforts to improve the medical care of the sick and wounded soldiers.
While traveling in the south of India, fourteen-year-old John and his mother encounter the Irish missionary Amy Carmichael and find themselves drawn into helping the work of the Dohnavur Fellowship.
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1543, after his mother is arrested as a heretic, fifteen-year-old Adriaen Wens flees with the Anabaptist preacher Menno Simons and must decide whether to turn Simons in to save his mother from death.
While searching for his younger brother who has been "sold" to be trained as a chimney sweep in eighteenth-century London, thirteen-year-old Ned meets the itinerant preacher John Wesley whose message changes the lives of his entire family.
Presents biographies of fifteen missionaries, evangelists, and other Christian heroes who worked courageously to share the Gospel with others.