Inspiring True Stories

The Shoe on the Other Foot

We sure aren’t overdoing it in the witnessing department. How many times has someone offered you a gospel tract? I can count the occasions its happened to me on one hand. And how many times has someone initiated a conversation...

The Story of a Bible

Being a radio-television technician in the 1970’s and 80’s and an antenna installer for small villages in the province of Québec, Canada, there was never a lack of work for my father. On occasion, he would also travel Highway 20...

Bread and to Spare

A true life story, as retold by Jabe Nicholson Anthony, son of Guiseppe Cetola, was born November 24, 1912 in Foggia, Italy, and raised in the hill country south of Rome. As a young man he worked as a shepherd there,...

Kristi’s Story

“I will praise You…” A number of years ago, God chose to begin a new life within a fourteen-year-old girl. Certainly, it was a result of her own unwise behavior; but still, in His sovereignty, God decided to bring it about....

Finding My Messiah

“It is strange to be jealous over a God that you refuse to acknowledge exists.” I was born in Israel and grew up in Kibbutz Adamit, a small commune-type village in the Galilee. While I was born a Jew, I never...

Richard Varder, Prairie Pioneer

In summer and winter, both sowing and reaping, in season and out of season It was a bitterly cold day when pioneer evangelist Richard Varder arrived in Punnichy, SK, a village 80 miles (128 km) north of Regina. In his words,...

Grace

She Sang at the Airport

When were you last sung to in an airport? I was so treated after missing a flight from O’Hare Airport, Chicago, on November 18, 2006. But I must not get ahead of my story. For months I had been looking forward...

A Ministry Fit for a King

What do a trumpet, hand puppets, and a U-Haul-type trailer have to do with evangelism? Well, for 40 years—involving children in more than ten states—that’s how my dad and mom pioneered a children’s ministry that touched thousands of lives. Many knew...