October 27. Billy Sunday. Billy grew up in a log cabin in Iowa, where  ten members of his family—including his father, died before Billy turned ten. His mother had to send her remaining children to live in the Soldier’s Orphan Home. But thanks to the love of his brother and Billy’s love for baseball, he still became a star.  With the Chicago White Stockings in 1883, Billy struck […]

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October 26. Rory Lee Feek. Rory is an American country-music singer and songwriter. He has written songs for artists such as Clay Walker, Tracy Byrd, and Blake Shelton.  Rory has always been diligent about what he was called to do, but in the four years after the loss of his wife Joey, Rory raised funding and built a one-room school house on […]

October 25. Francis Asbury. Although Asbury suffered much and was often ill, on this date in 1773, after nearly dying, he miraculously rebounded.  Asbury spent 45 years in the colonies and the newly independent United States as a circuit-riding preacher, a minister, and a bishop. It is estimated that he ordained 2,000 ministers and rode more than 130,000 miles […]

October 24. Bruce Olson. Bruce is a Scandinavian American Christian missionary best known for his work in bringing Christianity to the Motilone Indians of Colombia and Venezuela. But on his very first trip into the jungle, Bruce walked in circles for hours, and when he stopped for the night, he had no machete, not even a tool to open his can of sardines.  He sat on the […]

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