SPIRIT BROODSWitnesses

Biographies

Lives that still bear witness.

473 published life accounts. Explore their quotations and connected readings.

Allen Yuan

The Chinese pastor who refused state control of his congregation, spent twenty-one years in prison, and returned to preaching in Beijing.

Art Katz

A Jewish Voice Calling for the Fear of the Lord

B. H. Clendennen

The Pentecostal minister whose pastoral work in Beaumont developed into the School of Christ training movement.

B. R. Lakin

A Baptist preacher whose ministry began in rural Appalachia and later reached national audiences through broadcasting and travelling evangelism.

Cecil Polhill

The Cambridge Seven Missionary Who Became a Pentecostal Pioneer

Dayuma

A Waorani Woman Who Returned to Her People

Dora Yu

The Chinese Evangelist Who Trained a Generation

Elias Letwaba

A South African Pentecostal evangelist who helped develop African congregations and established an important school for training church leaders.

Faith Cook

The Writer Who Brought the Faithful Back to Life

Festo Olang’

A Kenyan Anglican leader whose pastoral work, Bible translation and appointment as the first African archbishop helped shape the national church.

Floyd McClung

The American missionary and author whose work in Afghanistan, Amsterdam and beyond connected practical service with Christian discipleship.

Francisco Olazábal

A Mexican evangelist who helped shape Spanish-speaking Pentecostal churches and independent Latino Christian leadership.

George Swinnock

The English nonconformist minister whose writings on Christian conduct, vocation and the character of God survived his ejection in 1662.

George Verwer

The founder of Operation Mobilisation, whose early literature outreach in Mexico grew into an international missionary movement.

Gordon Fee

The New Testament scholar and teacher whose careful work on biblical interpretation brought scholarship and Pentecostal faith into conversation.

Haik Hovsepian Mehr

An Iranian Armenian Protestant leader whose advocacy for imprisoned Christians preceded his disappearance and killing in January 1994.

Haralan Popov

The Bulgarian Pentecostal minister imprisoned by the Communist authorities who later supported persecuted Christians through Door of Hope.

Henry Varley

An English evangelist who combined working-class outreach in London with preaching tours across Britain, North America and Australasia.

Hester Ann Rogers

The eighteenth-century Methodist whose letters and spiritual journal became widely read accounts of faith, service and devotion.

Hossein Soodmand

An Iranian Assemblies of God pastor whose ministry, repeated arrests and 1990 execution were documented by international human-rights observers.

J. C. Ryle

The Bishop of Liverpool and the Plain Teacher of Holiness

J. Rodman Williams

The Presbyterian minister and theologian whose work brought systematic theology into conversation with charismatic renewal.

James Caughey

The Irish-born Methodist evangelist whose nineteenth-century preaching campaigns and surviving correspondence influenced revival work in Britain and North America.

Joe Church

The Doctor Who Helped to Light the East African Revival

John Stam

The Young Missionary Who Died at Twenty-Seven

John Stott

The Preacher of All Souls and the Voice of Evangelical Unity

Juji Nakada

The Samurai's Son Who Founded the Japan Holiness Church

Perpetua

The Young Mother Who Wrote Her Own Martyrdom

Rachel Saint

The Sister Who Went to the Tribe That Killed Her Brother

Ruth Paxson

A Missionary Teacher and the Life on the Highest Plane

Samuel Lamb

The Pastor of Damaoshu Who Spent Twenty Years in Prison

Tertullian

The Brilliant African Who Shaped Latin Theology

Uma Ukpai

An Evangelist across Nigerian Church Boundaries

Watchman Nee

The Chinese Christian teacher whose ministry, imprisonment and surviving letters give enduring context to his words, I maintain my joy.

Zac Poonen

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