Brian & Louise Hogan

Brian & Louise Hogan

While a college student at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, Brian just happened to pick up a magazine by Wycliffe Bible Translators. When he began reading the Holy Spirit immediately fell on him. Brian was feeling as if God had poured His heart for the nations on him, and thought this is what people must have meant by a call to missions.

Billy & Ruth Graham

Billy & Ruth Graham

Billy believed that his life purpose was to preach the Gospel and help people discover a personal relationship with God through knowing God’s son, Jesus Christ. Billy Graham is known for preaching the Gospel to live audiences to more people than anyone else in history.

Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi revolutionized his day with his radical teachings about repentance and he validated his message with the radical lifestyle that he gladly accepted. He attempted in every area of his life to imitate the life of His Lord.

William Carey

William Carey

Carey founded the Christian Church in India, the school system, the postal system and ended the practice of widow burning as he had vowed to. This ‘uneducated’ man, at the end of his life had seen the Scriptures translated into forty languages, and printed 213,000 Bibles.

Alexander Duff

Alexander Duff

Soon the Scottish Church decided to send a missionary to India on an educational mission, and Duff was asked to go. In 1829, at the age of 18, he left for India with his new bride Anne. When he arrived in Calcutta, Christianity had but a few converts among the orphans and outcasts. Christianity was small, feeble, and not self-propagating.

Elisabeth Elliot & Rachel Saint

Elisabeth Elliot & Rachel Saint

Spurred on by the death of their husband and brother, Elisabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint, quickly established a home among the Auca Indians. Rachel Saint, who worked for Wycliffe Bible Translators, was the older sister of Nate.  Rachel and Elisabeth have become some of Christendom’s most beloved and well-known women missionaries. They have been an encouragement and challenge to woman in godliness, faithfulness and God’s purpose in world missions.

Amy Carmichael

Amy Carmichael

Single women missionaries have always been a dominant factor in the great history of global mission. Amy Wilson Carmichael was one of these women.

William Borden

William Borden

The life of William Borden is not your typical missionary hero story. The beginning of his life was unique not only to many missionaries, but to most people in general. He was born the heir of a million dollar family fortune in the late 1800s, a dairy company worth $2 billion today!