The Two Sisters Who Prayed Until the Shepherd Returned

In 1949, the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides was spiritually desolate. Churches sat nearly empty. Young people wanted nothing to do with faith. The community that had once thrived under the gospel felt abandoned, like a vineyard left to the wild boar — stripped bare and exposed to every wind. But in a small stone cottage in the village of Barvas, two elderly sisters refused to stop crying out.…