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From Wikipedia: Minyuan Stadium, in Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of Tianjin Teda F.C. until the TEDA Football Stadium opened in 2004. The stadium held 18,000 spectators. Eric Liddell helped build the stadium when he was a missionary in Tianjin in 1926, modelling it on Stamford Bridge of London, which was Liddell’s favourite athletics venue. From TripAdvisor: “Free – Sports Museum shows Read more...

Wikipedia: Charles Thomas Studd, often known as C. T. Studd (2 December 1860[1] – 16 July 1931), was a British missionary, a contributor to The Fundamentals, and a cricketer. In 1888, he married Priscilla Livingstone Stewart, and their marriage produced four daughters, and two sons (who died in infancy). As a British Anglican[2] Christian missionary to China he was part of the Cambridge Seven, and later was responsible for setting up the Read more...

From Vance Christie: Carl Becker (1894-1990) was born and raised in Manheim, Pennsylvania. After receiving his medical training at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, he successfully practiced medicine in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, for seven years. In 1929 Becker and his wife, Marie, left Boyertown to go to the Belgian Congo (modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the Africa Inland Mission. Read more...

The only Free Lutheran Church in Copenhagen, started by Niels Pedersen Grunnet (1827-1897)   From Christian Cyclopedia: (February 19, 1827–January 13, 1897). B. North Bjert, near Kolding, Den.; joined the Staerke jyder (Strong Jutlanders) movement formed ca. 1800 in opposition to rationalism; taught school at Hedensted and Egtved; soldier 1848; studied theol. at the school of the Basel* Miss. Soc. 1851–54; dismissed because of his refusal to embrace a compromising confessional Read more...

Watch Our Christian Heritage Interview with Ed McCully’s sons on the 70th anniversary of Operation Auca: Catch Part II – how has Operation Auca affected them 70 years later? Or watch from ITEC (Steve Saint, Nate Saint’s son – Operation Auca 60 years later) From Wikipedia: In 1956, on a sandbar on the Curaray, five Evangelical missionaries were killed by Huaorani tribespeople during Operation Auca, an attempt to Read more...

No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets.   WILLIAM WHITING BORDEN, OF YALE The Man with a Million for the Kingdom REV. HENRY W. FROST, America’s representative of the China Inland Mission, once asked a distinguished Englishman, “Of all that you have seen in America what has impressed you most?” Mr. Frost was expecting him to refer to the monuments of Read more...

From Wikipedia Lillian Hunt Trasher (27 September 1887 – 17 December 1961) was an American Christian missionary to Asyut, Egypt, as well as the founder of the first orphanage in Egypt. She is famed as the “Nile Mother” of Egypt.[by whom?] Early life Trasher was born in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised Roman Catholic in Brunswick, Georgia.[1] According to one account, her Quaker family had moved to the South Read more...

From Wikipedia: St. Mary of Zion claims to contain the original Ark of the Covenant. Reportedly, the Ark was moved to the Chapel of the Tablet adjacent to the old church because a divine ‘heat’ from the Tablets had cracked the stones of its previous sanctum. Emperor Haile Selassie’s wife, Empress Menen, paid for the construction of the new chapel.[citation needed] According to Read more...

The plaque: Here stood the house of ETIENNE MANGIN in which was constructed the first Reformed Church of France. In front of this location 14 Reformists, arrested during a cult, were burned on October 8, 1546 at the decree of the Parliament in Paris on October 4, 1546. Offered by the City of Meaux 1985 Author’s note – I spent a Read more...

Jacques Pavanes finds his name spelled different ways. In The Fourteen of Meaux, it notes his name as Iacobus Pauaneus, Jaques Pavanes, Pavannes, and Jacques Pauvant. However you spell his name, they said “This Jaques Pavanes began to teach the truth with such fervency of soul that he was the first to suffer death by fire in Paris.” Likely less than Read more...

One of the first victims of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, was Gaspard de Coligny of Châtillon. His great grandson would be the King of England. Wounded in battle and later knighted, he became Colonel-General of the infantry. His brother Andelot, a recent Protestant convert, sent Coligny a devotional book that appeared to contribute to Coligny’s own conversion. Coligny’s efforts for Read more...

From Wikipedia: Le Musée du Désert is a museum dedicated to the history of Protestantism in France, particularly in the Cévennes. Its name refers to the Désert, the period between the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the Edict of Versailles (1685–1787) during which Protestantism was illegal in France. The museum, formerly the house of the Camisard leader, Roland Laporte, is situated at Mas Soubeyran, in the commune of Mialet, département Gard, not far Read more...

From Wikipedia: The 1924 Summer Olympics were hosted by the city of Paris. A devout Christian, Liddell refused to run in a heat held on Sunday and was forced to withdraw from the 100-metre race, his best event. The schedule had been published several months earlier, and his decision was made well before the Games. Liddell spent the intervening months training for Read more...

Eric Liddell was known as the “Flying Scotsman” even though he was born in China. Yet when the 100 meter Olympic qualifying rounds were announced for Sunday, July 6th, 1924, Eric knew he could not participate in the race he was considered the clear favorite. Instead, on Sunday, July 6th, Eric preached the Sunday morning sermon at The Scots Kirk Read more...

One of the most tragic stories in Biblical archaeology is the tale of the Mesha Stele. Only one outsider is recorded to have seen it, Anglican missionary Frederick Klein. He said, “I am sorry to find that I was also the last European who had the privilege of seeing this monument of Hebrew antiquity in its perfect state of preservation.” Read more...

Hi. I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we are in Leipzig, Germany. Now, Leipzig has a very famous history, but for our interests, we are outside of St. Thomas Church. It has a great deal of influence whenever we think of the Reformation. Luther was here, but that’s a separate story. Two hundred years after the Reformation, Johann Sebastian Bach was at Read more...

Hi, this is Pastor Luther, and I’m in Leipzig, Germany, at a very important church. It’s called St Thomas Church. It’s important to the Reformation because it is here that Martin Luther came for a debate two years after he had published the 95 Theses. The debate was between Luther and a man by the name of Johannes Eck, and Read more...

  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we’re here in Germany, in the Wartburg Castle. Now, you might remember that it was here that Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German in just 11 weeks. His translation became very influential. Eventually, Luther translated the entire Bible, but he had help for that, and it took several years. Now, it’s impossible Read more...

Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we are in Erfurt, Germany. I’m standing behind the altar in the Augustinian monastery where Martin Luther performed his first Mass. He had a great deal of respect for the sovereignty and the holiness of God. As a matter of fact, I’m going to read for you what Luther said at a later time as Read more...

Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. Several of us are traveling around Germany learning something about its history. Today, we are in Wittenberg, and we’re actually in the house of Melanchthon. Of course, you don’t hear about him as often as you hear about Luther, but he was Luther’s assistant. He was actually a systematic theologian. Now, when it comes to Luther, Read more...