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The life of Isabella Lilias Trotter is a remarkable story of devotion, sacrifice, and quiet influence. Born on July 14, 1853, in London, Trotter was raised in a wealthy and cultured family. From an early age, she displayed an exceptional talent for art, a gift that would later become both a means of expression and a tool for ministry. As Read more...

Frank Jenner spoke with over 100,000 people on George Street in Sydney, asking them: “If you died within 24 hours, where would you be in eternity? Heaven or hell?” Ray Comfort would often tell the story of the faithfulness in evangelism of Frank Jenner Featured Image Credit: Royal Australian Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

John G. Paton (1824–1907) was a Scottish missionary whose life and work in the South Pacific made him one of the most celebrated figures in nineteenth-century Protestant missions. Serving primarily among the islands then known as the New Hebrides (modern-day Vanuatu), Paton became widely known for his perseverance in the face of extreme hardship, his commitment to evangelism, and his Read more...

Learn more at https://acl.asn.au/resources/eternity From Facebook: Arthur Stace, a homeless alcoholic lived in the Streets of Sydney, Australia. After a conversion to Christianity, he quit drinking, and spent the rest of his life writing the word “Eternity” all over the city in yellow chalk. He is said to have written it over five hundred thousand times. He is remembered in Read more...

Eternity Cafe is a unique establishment that blends hospitality with a message of faith, offering visitors not only food and drink but also an opportunity for reflection and spiritual encouragement. Located in the heart of Melbourne, the café has become known for its welcoming atmosphere and its connection to one of the city’s most enduring religious legacies. The name “Eternity Read more...

Approximate location Also recognized by Taubergassen Road in Vienna From BackToLuther: After such a long struggle God wanted to reveal his glory and Tauber’s faith. Once again the tyrants tried to persuade him to revoke.  Many men and a great crowd gathered, eager to all learn if he would recant. But the pious Christian was not weaker but stronger and Read more...

William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536) was one of the most important figures in the history of the English Bible and the Protestant Reformation. A scholar, linguist, and reformer, Tyndale is best known for his translation of the Scriptures into English, a work that profoundly shaped both religious life and the English language itself. His commitment to making the Bible accessible to Read more...

The collection of the William Tyndale museum in Vilvoorde started with a gift from a private collector to the William Tyndale Church in 1982 (now named William Tyndale-Silo Church). The fledgling museum was located in the basement of the church building in the Lange Molensstraat, not far from the place where Tyndale was executed. The museum opened in October 1986, Read more...

The Erasmus House is one of the most treasured historical sites associated with Desiderius Erasmus, offering a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of the great Renaissance thinker. Located in Anderlecht, this modest yet dignified residence preserves the memory of Erasmus’s brief but meaningful stay in the early 16th century. Erasmus lived in the house in 1521 as a Read more...

From Wikipedia: Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos or Voes, were the first two Lutherans martyrs, executed by the Council of Brabant for their adherence to Reformation doctrine. They were burned at the stake in Brussels on 1 July 1523.[1] Background Essen and Vos were friars of the Order of Saint Augustine resident at the Augustinian priory in Antwerp, now St. Andrew’s Church. When in 1522 all the friars there publicly professed Lutheran doctrine, the Bishop of Cambrai had them all arrested Read more...

Wikipedia:   Jonathan Goforth (Chinese: 顧約拿單, February 10, 1859 – October 8, 1936) was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary to China with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, with his wife, Rosalind (Bell-Smith) Goforth. Jonathan Goforth became the foremost missionary revivalist in early 20th-century China and helped to establish revivalism as a major element in Protestant China missions. Goforth grew up on an Oxford County, Ontario, farm, the seventh of eleven children. As a young man Read more...

Joseph Scriven (1819-1886) lived a life of sorrows. His fiancé died the night before they were to be married. Engaged again, this fiancé also tragically perished. He wrote a poem that he sent to his mother, that was set to music and published, as What a Friend We Have in Jesus. A memorial to him is found in his native Read more...

Port Hope History: It became Joseph’s usual practice to spend the winter months in Bewdley and the summers in Port Hope, where he boarded for 22 years with Margaret, nee Brumfitt, the widow of Patrick Gibson, a milkman, in her house on Thomas Street at the corner of Merritt Street, which later became a part of Strachan Street. Mrs Gibson Read more...

From 1860 to 1930, the Queen’s Royal Hotel was located on the shores of the Niagara River overlooking Lake Ontario. One of the top hotels of the Gilded Age, from 1883 to 1897 it became the permanent home of the Believers’ Meeting for Bible Study, later called the Niagara Bible Conference. This prototype of the Bible Conference movement, began in Read more...

Hymn History: So Send I You Author: Edith Margaret Clarkson   “Billy Graham has called [it] ‘the finest hymn of our generation.'” (Mennonite Weekly Review) “Later in life, she rejected it as ‘spiritually immature,’ and begged churches to replace it with some newly-written lines.” (Ottawa Citizen)   The Origin of the Hymn “So Send I You” The life and legacy Read more...

From  The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, Thomas Todhunter Shields (1873-1955) was born in England and grew up in Canada, the son of a pastor. He was converted in 1891 at age 18 and preached his first sermon three years later. He had no formal college or seminary education. He pastored four Baptist churches between 1894 and Read more...

Thomas Todhunter Shields  “He was called a ‘man of special gifts, a mountain peak without peer as preacher, teacher, writer — a veritable genius, the Canadian Spurgeon, a battling Baptist, and a devoted pastor.’” (David Cloud)   Early Life and Formation Thomas Todhunter Shields was born on November 1, 1873, in Bristol, England, into a family whose father was an Read more...

From the Wheaton Vault From Wikipedia: Tsingtao (today called Qingdao), a city on the east coast of China, was Betty Stam’s childhood home; she (the oldest of five children) grew up there, where Betty’s father, Charles Scott, was a missionary.[3] In 1926, Betty returned to the United States to attend college. While a student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago she met John Stam, who was Read more...

Watch Douglas Whitley in character as Hudson Taylor: Watch Our Christian Heritage interview with Vance Christie on Hudson Taylor:     Exact location unknown   From China Christian Daily: On June 5, 2018, the Hudson Taylor Memorial Building was opened in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, where the great missionary is buried. In the past one year and some, Christians have visited the Read more...

The subject of Chariots of Fire, returned to China as a missionary after the Olympics. During World War II he was kept in a Japanese Internment Camp known as Weixian Internment Camp.   Featured Image Credit: Alexandquan, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons   Other photos available from Nicholas Kitto Photos from 1991   http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/NormanCliff/people/individuals/Eric01/txt_monument.htm   https://churchleaders.com/daily-buzz/261525-chinas-hero-eric-liddell-honored-statue.html   Read more...