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John Hyde was born in Illinois, USA, on November 9, 1865.
His father, Dr Smith Hyde, was a Presbyterian minister, and in that manse the power of prayer became a reality to young John. In later years John would be known to his fellow missionaries as “Praying” Hyde. Smith and his godly wife prayed fervently that [...]

This is the day that Hiram Bingham was born in Vermont, USA, in 1789.
He was nearly 20 years of age when Obookiah, a young Hawaiian lad, was found weeping on the steps of Yale College. He had arrived in America on a trading vessel. Led to Christ by a young Christian student, Edwin Dwight, it [...]

This is the day that Louis Thompson Talbot was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1889.
His father, an assistant manager for Tooth’s Brewery, had married Bessie on the very day she had arrived from England. In the early 1900s Louis’ older brother, Jim, was converted at a gospel meeting in Redfern, New South Wales. The preacher [...]

This is the day that … Lyman Beecher was born in Connecticut, in 1775.
He has been described as “the father of more brains than any other man in America”, a reference to his 13 children.  These included the famous preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe.  As a [...]

This is the day that … Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was born in New York State, in 1839.
She was the middle of three children born to Josiah and Mary Willard in Churchville.
Being a red-headed tomboy, she preferred to be called “Frank”, but the day came when she outgrew that stage. “Next to being an [...]

This is the day that …William Holmes McGuffey was born in Pennsylvania, USA, in 1800.
Much of his early schooling came from his mother – he “irregularly attended rural schools” – but eventually he was to become president of Ohio University (1839-1843). His mother prayed that he would become a preacher, which he most certainly did, [...]

This is the day that … Antoinette Louisa Brown was ordained to the Christian ministry in America in 1853 … the first woman minister of a recognised denomination in the United States. The place was the First Congregational Church, Wayne County, New York.
Luther Lee, a Wesleyan Methodist, preached the ordination sermon on Galatians 3:28. The [...]

This is the day that … Alexander Campbell was born in 1788, in Ireland.
His father, Thomas Campbell, was a Presbyterian minister connected to the Secession Church in Ireland and Scotland, concerned about a faith that was Biblical and personally real. Due to health reasons, Thomas sailed for America on 8 April, 1807.
Eleven months later the [...]

This is the day that … Marcus Whitman was born in Massachusetts, in 1802. (Other sources say Rushville, N.Y.)
After studying medicine for eight years (four in Canada and four in New York), he heard Rev. Samuel Parker plead for missionaries to work on America’s western coast. He travelled to Oregon with Parker and at the [...]

This is the day that … Adoniram Judson was born, in 1788.
He was to become America’s first foreign missionary. His passion for reaching Burma led to the formation of the first American Mission societies. He sailed from his homeland as a Congregationalist, and arrived in India as a Baptist, in 1812. En route his translation [...]