After his mother dies, Bob’s father raises him and his older sister. Speaking Cherokee at home, he struggles in school. Tribal superstitions rule. His dad remarries, a woman who takes them to church and teaches responsibility; then she dies. His dad drinks; Bob sneaks alcohol and steals, feeling shame. Finally, he graduates, goes to vocational technical school but drops out. His father dies of a heart attack in Bob’s arms, and he rages at God. Drunk and homeless, he stays here and there. A man gives him a tract; he goes to church. The pastor leads him to Christ. He serves as youth pastor and meets Charlene. They marry & he goes to Bible college. They are still serving as missionaries on a reservation in Washington.

Rudy grows up in a Christian family, leaves home to work on the railroad around corrupting men. He marries a girl from his Sunday school class. After a few years he decides to read the Bible, then he memorizes 1000 verses. He’s made a conductor. An accident causes a train car to run over his legs, mangling them. Doctors want to amputate but he refuses. God saves his legs, and during 107 days in the hospital he leads several men to faith. He goes back to work as a conductor and helps at PGM on layovers.

A Jew, born in Czechoslovakia, Tom’s parents put him on the train to England to escape Hitler’s persecution. He hears the gospel and trusts Christ at age 9. His family dies during the war. He is called to missions at age 16, goes to nurses training and then Bible college in Glasgow. The first part ends as he and his foster “Uncle Jimmie” pray together.

Tom serves as a missionary in the Philippines where he meets Caroline. They marry, but when they adopt two children, their mission drops them. For 25 years they live in the U.S., serving in spite of illness and setback. They return to the Philippines to serve, but more illness interferes. When Communism falls in Eastern Europe, Tom returns to Czechoslovakia where he obtains citizenship, serves as a missionary and links up with his past.

Virginia’s mother dies, charging the ten-year-old to keep the six siblings together. Her dad abuses and neglects them. The next five years Virginia perseveres, feeding and watching over the family. Her dad is gone and doesn’t bring food or clothing. Their Sunday school teacher comes and shares the gospel. When she’s 12 and her brother Billy is 14, they receive Christ. Then Billy is killed in an accident. Virginia meets Lewis and they marry when she’s almost sixteen. She fulfills her mother’s charge, raising the children, praying for her dad. He repents at age 79 and lives with them till he dies.

At birth Robert is adopted into a Jewish family and raised as an only child. Spoiled by his mother, he is rebellious and self-centered. He graduates without motivation and marries, but both are immature. They have three sons, but he floats from one job to another, then begins smoking marijuana. After his mother dies, he and his wife divorce. As a traveling salesman, lonely and disconnected, he asks God for a woman to talk to. He meets Delilah, and she invites him to church where he prays for salvation. They marry and he begins to change, becoming a Messianic Jew and meeting his birth mother.

Charles goes to church with his granny but rebels at 14 and quits as he sees hypocrisy in people. He starts drinking with friends, steals, uses marijuana and drag races. He meets Jennie and they marry three months later, then he resumes his old life, refusing to go to church with her. A biker comes into his workplace and invites him to church. That day Charles is fired for insubordination, leading to a fight with Jennie. He promises to go to church, and the next day they do. There he is led to Christ, ending the first part.

Charles witnesses to his old buddies who ridicule him. Pat gives him a job in his body shop. Charles learns to prioritize and trust God as he serves in the church. He witnesses to a co-worker, but Don rejects the gospel. Charles and a mentor witness to an alcoholic friend, who also rejects Christ. The man dies that night of a heart attack and Charles feels compelled to preach on street corners. Charles goes to his former employer and confesses thefts that they forgive. He goes to Bible college, becomes a preacher. Don is saved and becomes a preacher.

The oldest of nine children, Clint and his family move from Arizona to Chicago when he’s twelve. There he’s invited to Sunday school and professes faith in Christ at fourteen. He goes to Bible classes and gives his testimony on street corners. At 17 he goes to Albuquerque to work for the railroad, working Sundays. He backslides, rides the rails, then falls in with a robber. They buy guns and commit highway robbery for 18 months. They’re caught, and in jail churches minister, but he resists. He’s sentenced to San Quentin where he finally surrenders to Christ. He serves God in jails and rescue missions.

Fearful in the Great War, Joe promises God that he will become a minister. Unsaved, he goes through seminary. As a pastor he meets Nelda and they marry. Her mother knows Joe isn’t saved and her comments annoy him. When an unsaved parishioner dies, pleading for peace with God, Joe doesn’t have the answer and quits the ministry. He goes to New York, talks with theologians. One of them sends him to the Bowery rescue mission. Joe is offended by the sermon but ultimately goes forward and is saved.