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The Azusa Street Revival (1906-1915) started in a rundown building in Los Angeles. Within years, missionaries had gone from there to over 25 countries. They had almost no money, little education, but they had power.
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In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune rented a small cottage in Daytona Beach, Florida, and opened a school for Black girls with five students, a dollar...
In 2015, a small church in Clarkston, Georgia — a town sometimes called "the most diverse square mile in America" — started a monthly potluck...
After Jesus ascended, He told the disciples to WAIT in Jerusalem for the Spirit. They waited 10 days—praying, worshipping, expecting. Then Pentecost exploded. The waiting wasn't passive; it was pregnant with expectation. "Those who wait on the LORD shall renew...
In 1821, slave traders raided a Yoruba village in what is now Nigeria and dragged a twelve-year-old boy named Ajayi onto a Portuguese slave ship....
In 1903, a fourteen-year-old Sikh boy named Sundar Singh tore a Bible apart page by page and burned it in his courtyard in Rampur, India....
In 2014, Pastor Marcus Rivera planned a mission trip to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His team of twelve from a small church in Durham, North Carolina, had...
On July 8, 1741, Jonathan Edwards stood before a congregation in Enfield, Connecticut, and read from a manuscript in his characteristically quiet, measured voice. He...
In 1948, Romanian secret police dragged Richard Wurmbrand from his family and buried him in a cell three floors beneath Bucharest. For three years he...
When Grace Community Church in Boise opened a free Wednesday night dinner in 2019, the congregation had a picture in their minds of who would...
In the summer of 1727, the small village of Herrnhut in Saxony was tearing itself apart. Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf had opened his estate to...
On August 12, 2016, floodwaters swallowed southern Louisiana. Before FEMA arrived, before the National Guard mobilized, something remarkable happened. Ordinary people — shrimpers from Lafitte,...
In April 1906, William J. Seymour — a one-eyed African American preacher, the son of formerly enslaved parents — began holding prayer meetings in a...
In 1731, a young German nobleman named Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf attended the coronation of King Christian VI in Copenhagen. There he met Anthony, an...
In 2018, a paramedic named Rachel Torres responded to an overdose call in a Tucson apartment complex. She had been on dozens of these runs,...
On October 9, 1989, seventy thousand people filled the streets of Leipzig, East Germany, carrying candles. The Communist regime had stationed troops and armored vehicles...
In 2019, a hospice nurse named Margaret Ajagu in Birmingham, England, was called into her supervisor's office and handed a formal warning. A family had...
When Miss Rosa Lee Patterson died in 2019, the members of her small church in Albany, Georgia, expected a modest funeral. Rosa had never held...
In 2018, a Nashville courtroom fell silent as former police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murdering Botham Jean, a man she shot in his...
In 2003, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was one of Gaza's most promising physicians, trained in Israel at the Sheba Medical Center. For years, he crossed borders...
In 1720, a twenty-year-old German nobleman named Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf wandered into an art gallery in Düsseldorf. He was wealthy, educated, and comfortable —...
On a February morning in 1974, Soviet authorities dragged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from his Moscow apartment and deported him from Russia. His crime was simple: he...
In 2018, Dr. Sarah Chen planned to open her free medical clinic in downtown Phoenix. She had the funding, the building lease, even the volunteer...
In the spring of 1953, Billy Graham arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a crusade and found the auditorium divided — ropes strung down the center...