Every Wednesday at Spirit Club Rachel or I tell the children a hero story. I think I have gotten more out of these stories than the kids! I see what a difference faith makes in the life of an ordinary, imperfect person. Here are some of the best ones if you are looking for some juicy spiritual role models:
George Washington Carver – George Washington Carver (God inspires former slave to help his people through science)
Elias Chacour – Blood Brothers (God leads Palestinian who lost his home to start interfaith school)
Gandhi – The Story of My Experiments with Truth (God leads Gandhi to reform himself and his country)
Helen Keller – The Story of My Life (deaf-blind woman discovers faith as a young adult)
Esther Kim – If I Perish (Korean refuses to bow before WWII Shinto shrine)
Martin Luther King – I Have a Dream (God helps civil right leader apply gospel)
Deborah Moore – Same Kind of Different as Me (God leads wife to connect her wealthy Texan husband to a homeless man)
John Newton – Once Blind or John Newton (God saves a misguided slave trader)
John Rucyahana – Bishop of Rwanda (God calls Anglican Bishop to reconcile Hutus and Tutsis)
St Francis – Little Flowers or The Life of St Francis of Assisi (young soldier gives up life of privilege to be a traveling preacher / faith community leader)
St Patrick – St Patrick of Ireland (British man gives up home to tell Irish about Jesus)
Joni Erickson Tada – Joni (young teen learns to accept being paralyzed)
Corrie Ten Boon – The Hiding Place (Dutch Christian goes to Nazi concentration camp)
Mother Teresa – Mother Teresa (nun called to serve poor and dying of Calcutta)
Harriet Tubman – Harriett Tubman (conductor on the underground railroad)
William Wilberforce – Amazing Grace (campaigns to end slavery in England)
Brother Yun – Heavenly Man (persecuted pastor of illegal house churches in China)
