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In this conclusion Mavis and Dudley adopt a daughter. She continues to have seizures and pain from her lupus. Once she pulls her own tooth because they have no money for a dentist. Then she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Chemotherapy fails, so they attempt a bone marrow transplant, which is horrific but seems to succeed. The cancer returns and she refuses additional treatment. She trusts in God to the end.

Harvey’s dad is an abusive drunk who drives away Harvey’s mother. He grows up a witness to violence, lying and stealing and joins the ranks, getting expelled from school for violence. He has some exposure to Christian love and goes to church with sister; but he is drawn into alcohol and drugs and fighting pit bull dogs. After he nearly overdoses on crack cocaine, he cries out to God, reads the Bible and quits drugs. He is born again in church several years later. Now in music ministry at church.

Bill grows up with a succession of fathers and a bad attitude. He smokes marijuana at 11, drinks and gets in trouble. Sent to a detention home at 13, he works to straighten up. Can’t graduate, continues to drink and do drugs. He meets Melissa and they live together, then marry. She threatens to leave because of his wild life with accidents caused by drinking. A daughter is born and he still carouses. She leaves him before Christmas. He sees a movie about Christ, reads the Bible and gets saved. Eventually, Melissa returns. Bill is now in Scotland as a missionary.

Jacob is born into a poor Muslim family. His name is Abdulihe and he supports himself by serving as a guide to tourists. His father is Arab, his mother is Ethiopian, and he is hated by both groups. He becomes a guide to two Christians, who give him a New Testament. Reading the Gospel of John, he sees that Christ lets us choose to follow Him. He becomes a believer and his life is threatened. The communists take over Ethiopia, and he flees to Sudan. The first part ends with civil war erupting in Sudan.

Jacob is arrested during Sudan’s civil war and falsely accused of sedition. He spends four months in prison, then his aunt comes from Saudi Arabia and rescues him. She takes him from Saudi Arabia where he could be executed for apostasy and smuggling Bibles into the kingdom. He violates the Ramadan fast, admits he is a Christian and then goes on the run from authorities. Part 2 ends as he escapes to live in Sweden, praying for a wife.

Almaz is raised in a prosperous Ethiopian family. From her mother she learns to help others, sacrificing time and money for the poor. The country falls to Communism, and Almaz pursues a career in medicine by going to Russia to study. She hates communism, prays for God’s guidance. Jacob writes her from Sweden, proposing marriage. She asks for a sign: to get her lost passport, which God does; so she meets Jacob in Athens and they marry. Their life is dedicated to sharing the gospel in various countries.

“Clara” is raised in a Christian family where the parents pray and read Scripture. She rebels against a repressive church, goes to nursing school to get away from home. She works far from home in a psychiatric unit, absorbing godless philosophy. Drinking in bars, she ends up living with a man she eventually marries. They adopt children; Clara adopts alcohol and becomes addicted. She has blackouts, DWI, attempts suicide. Her mother comes to help, takes her home where a pastor’s wife leads Clara to the Lord.

Saji grows up in a nominal Christian home with a drunken, abusive father and a mother with mental problems. Anger and fighting seem to be the family’s chief inheritance. His sister is demon possessed at fourteen. Saji persists in getting his education, goes to live with uncle where a teacher talks about Christ. Then he rents a room near the college just prior to his graduation and two evangelists visit him and share the gospel and God’s love. Saji yields his life to Christ. Part 1 ends as his father beats him severely for his conversion.

Saji’s father beats him bloody for receiving Christ then kicks him out of the home. Saji returns to college where his Christian brothers help him. He prospers in his work, rents a house and brings his siblings to take care of them, softening his father’s heart. All profess faith in Christ. Saji marries Moni, goes to the U.S., planning to get rich. God puts India on his heart, he goes to seminary, starts a ministry to spread the gospel in India. His whole family now serves as missionaries in India.

Phil’s parents divorce when he is nine. His mother rents a home in the country for the four boys. Life is tough and Phil runs away several times. A snowstorm collapses the roof, destroying their piano and his hopes for a musical career. His mother becomes a housemother to a fraternity, where Phil resumes piano lessons. When his mother insists he live with his father, Phil rebels, rents a room and gets a job while going to school. A Christian witnesses to Phil, and the first part ends with his moving to escape the conviction.