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William Franklin Graham was born on November 7 in 1918, in North Carolina.
Born four days before the end of World War I, Billy was reared on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. During his childhood he helped on the family farm and spent many hours reading a wide variety of books in the hayloft.
In [...]

This is the day that Henrietta Cornella Mears was born in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, in 1890. “Praise God,” said her father, “it’s a girl! I couldn’t face rearing another son.”
Her biographers, E. Baldwin and D. Benson, in Henrietta Mears, and How She Did It, tell the remarkable story of this lass – “ready to [...]

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 Stuart Hamblen was converted at 4 o’clock in the morning. It was 1949.
Under conviction of sin, 40 year-old Hamblen, the son of a Texas minister, telephoned Billy Graham, waking him up: “Pray for me,” he begged the evangelist.
Billy Graham was preaching in his “Christ for Greater Los Angeles” crusade, [...]

This is the day that …Vance Houston Havner died, in 1986.
He was born in a small community nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina (USA), October 17, 1901.
He made his “peace with God” in the woods after hearing his father preach an old-fashioned gospel message. Vance was 10 years-old at [...]

This is the day that …William Cameron Townsend was born into a Presbyterian family in California, in 1896.
In 1917, after joining the Student Volunteer Movement in his teens, he was selling Spanish Bibles in Guatemala. But 2000 Cakchiquel Indians had no use for the Bible in Spanish, a language they could not understand. He was [...]

This is the day that … Warren Wiersbe was born in Chicago, in 1929.
As a lad he dabbled in stage magic (rabbits out of hats and all that sort of thing), and “the greatest literary event” was when he was introduced to the “Sherlock Holmes” stories and developed “a life-long interest in good detective fiction” [...]

This is the day that … Kenneth Taylor was born, in 1917.
It was at family devotions that one of his children asked him the meaning of a verse in the King James Version of the Bible.  When he had explained it the children retorted:  “Well, Daddy, if that’s what the verse means, why doesn’t it [...]