The Missionaries

Found seventeen Christians in his city and left seventeen pagans — they called him the Wonderworker.

Kidnapped into Irish slavery at sixteen, escaped home, then went back on purpose to the people who took him.

Won the Visigothic king to the Nicene faith and turned an entire kingdom with him.

Turned the Arian Suevi of Spain toward the Nicene faith and wrote plainly against country superstitions.

Preached to the tribes along the Danube and is the likeliest author of the Te Deum.

Baptized Clovis and with him the Franks — the opening that carried the gospel into Western Europe.

Wrote Columba's life, and pushed through a law protecting women and children from war.

Sent monks to convert England and wrote the handbook that taught the Middle Ages how to care for people's souls.

Gave refugees his estate and got back a hundred-year prayer meeting and the first Protestant missionary wave.

Coughed blood through four years among Native villages and left a diary that has sent thousands to the mission field since.

A village cobbler who expected great things from God, attempted great things for God, and opened the missions era.

Survived Burma's death prisons and buried his family there to give the Burmese the Bible they still read.

Housed ten thousand orphans in Bristol and never asked anyone but God for a penny.

Walked Africa open for the gospel, shamed the slave trade in print, and died on his knees.

Built an army out of the people no church wanted, with soup, soap, and salvation.

Wore Chinese dress, went inland where no missionary would go, and asked God for the money instead of asking men.

England's greatest cricketer gave away his fortune and finished in the Congo forest, a yard from hell by his own aim.

Pastored across South Africa and wrote about staying close to Christ in words a child can follow.

Hid Jews behind a false wall in her family's watch shop, survived Ravensbrück, and went back to Germany to forgive.

Drove Bibles through Iron Curtain checkpoints in a Volkswagen, praying the guards would see nothing.

Found inside a cannibal tribe's own custom of the peace child a doorway straight to the gospel.

Preached to African crowds of more than a million under a tent he had built for exactly that purpose.