Glimpses for Kids: Real Heroes for Today

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To select a hero, click on his or her name in the list below. These stories are online versions of our children's worship bulletin inserts written for children's church, education or worship ministries. Once you've finished reading a story, we invite you to go to "Fun Stuff" and try our quizzes.

  1. Amy Carmichael: A Helper to Trapped Kids. Order back issues.
  2. Eric Liddell: He Ran for More than Gold. Order back issues.
  3. Jim Elliott, no Fool. Order back issues.
  4. Gladys Aylward's Adventures in China. Order back issues.
  5. Samuel Morris: African Missionary to America. Order back issues.
  6. William Tyndale; He Was an Outlaw for God. Order back issues.
  7. Fanny Crosby, the Blind Song Writer. Order back issues.
  8. George Mueller; the Houses that Prayer Built. Order back issues.
  9. Corrie Ten Boom; A Risk Worth Taking. Order back issues.
  10. Nate Saint; Fit to Fly... for God. Order back issues.
  11. Harriet Tubman: Freedom or Death. Order back issues.
  12. Augustine: From Troubled Youth to Famous Thinker. Order back issues.
  13. David Livingstone: Explorer, Missionary Abolitionist. Order back issues.
  14. Martin Luther: Father of the Reformation. Order back issues.
  15. Squanto and the First Thanksgiving. Order back issues.
  16. Mary Slessor Part 1: The Worst Place on Earth. Order back issues.
  17. Mary Slessor Part 2: White Ma of Calabar. Order back issues.
  18. George W. Carver: Perseverance and Resourcefulness. Order back issues.
  19. Patrick From Slave to Missionary. Order back issues.
  20. Robert Raikes and How We Got Sunday School. Order back issues.
  21. Adoniram Judson America's "First" Foreign Missionary. Order back issues.
  22. John Newton - God's Amazing Grace. Order back issues.
  23. Perpetua - Her Prison Became Her Palace. Order back issues.
  24. George Whitefield - From School-Dropout to Open-Air Evangelist. Order back issues.
  25. Sojourner - Witness to the Truth. Order back issues.
  26. Richard Allen: Freedom Without Equality Is Not Freedom at All. Order back issues.
  27. C. S. Lewis: An Adventure in Faith. Order back issues.
  28. Ida Scudder: Reluctant Missionary. Order back issues.
  29. Mitsuo Fuchida Awakened a Sleeping Giant. Order back issues.
  30. Phillis Wheatley; a Slave no More. Order back issues.
  31. J. S. Bach; Soli Deo Gloria. Order back issues.
  32. John Calvin; Reluctant Reformer. Order back issues.
  33. Dietrich Bonhoeffer; the Cost of Discipleship. Order back issues.
  34. John Bunyan; the Jailor's Story. Order back issues.
  35. John Wesley; Father of Methodism. Order back issues.
  36. Francis Asbury; Preacher on Horseback. Order back issues.
  37. Polycarp; Courage on Display. Order back issues.
  38. Rosa Parks and the Bus Ride that Changed America. Order back issues.
  39. William Carey; the Father of Modern Missions. Order back issues.
  40. Christmas Special Issue. Order back issues.
  41. Hudson Taylor; Fit to Serve.Order back issues.
  42. Mary McLeod Bethune; A Missionary to Her Own people. Order back issues.
  43. Easter; a Play for all Time. Order back issues.
  44. Charles Finney; Bold Revivalist with New Ideas.Order back issues.
  45. Mary Jones; "God Will Give Me a Bible." Order back issues.
  46. Menno Simons; Pioneering a Way of Peace. Order back issues.
  47. William Wilberforce Stopped a Big Evil. Order back issues.
  48. Lottie Moon: Southern Belle in China. Order back issues.
  49. Origen: The Stone that Sharpens Us All. Order back issues.
  50. Halloween. Order back issues.
  51. Richard Wurmbrand; the Voice of the Martyrs. Order back issues.
  52. William and Catherine Booth: God's Army. Order back issues.

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