Biography

After coming to Canada penniless from Falkirk in Scotland, Robert Dollar became one of Scotland’s fifty wealthiest individuals, amassing a fortune of over forty million dollars ($800 million in today’s money).  He was even on the cover of the March 19th, 1928 TIME magazine, and written up in the Saturday Evening Post in 1929.  Leaving school at age 12 to work in … [Read more...] about Robert Dollar, global disciple in business 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a man on mission, a bright spot in the very dark time of World War II.   Coming from a highly educated, aristocratic family, Bonhoeffer shocked his family by deciding to become a pastor.  He was supposed to become a psychiatrist like his dad. His older brother begged him to not waste his life in such a “poor, feeble, boring, petty, bourgeois … [Read more...] about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man on a mission

As the founder of TIME, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines, Henry Luce has been described as ‘arguably the most important publisher of the last hundred years,’ and ‘the most influential private citizen in the America of his day.’   Luce’s parents sacrificially devoted their lives as missionaries in China.  It took them eighteen years to win their first … [Read more...] about Missionary Kid publisher, Henry Luce

In December 1938, Time Magazine called Dr. Eli Stanley Jones the world’s greatest missionary. As the most widely read spiritual author in his lifetime, he published twenty-eight books, two of which sold over one million copies.  Jones, as the ‘Billy Graham’ of India for fifty years, was famous for meeting in Round Table dialogues with Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and … [Read more...] about Dr. E. Stanley Jones: Missionary to Communists