NBTI Media Ministries
A new series
Voices from the Field
Stories of Faith That Changed the World
Real stories of men and women who gave everything for the gospel. Forgotten by the world. Remembered here.
These are the stories the world forgot. Men and women who sailed to places no one else would go, buried children and spouses in foreign soil, spent years in prisons and jungles and deserts, and never stopped. One story at a time. Every one of them true. Every one of them will change the way you think about yours.
13 stories · a new story every week
Adoniram Judson1788 to 1850Burma (Myanmar)He spent 21 months chained in a Burmese death prison. He never stopped translating the Bible.Read their story
Dora Yu1873 to 1931Korea, Shanghai and Fuzhou, ChinaShe collapsed in ministry. God restored her. Then she changed the course of Chinese Christianity.Read their story
Maximilian Kolbe1894 to 1941Auschwitz, Poland and Nagasaki, JapanHe stepped out of an Auschwitz death lineup to die for a man he had never met.Read their story
Fanny Crosby1820 to 1915New York, USAShe was blind from 6 weeks old. She wrote 9,000 hymns. She said it was part of God's plan.Read their story
John Paton1824 to 1907Tanna and Aniwa, Vanuatu (New Hebrides)He buried his wife and newborn son on a cannibal island. He stayed and kept preaching.Read their story
Lottie Moon1840 to 1912Tengchow and Pingtu, ChinaShe gave away her food during a famine and died weighing 50 pounds.Read their story
Corrie ten Boom1892 to 1983Haarlem, Holland and Ravensbrück, GermanyShe survived Auschwitz. Then she forgave the man who put her there.Read their story
John Bunyan1628 to 1688Bedford, EnglandHe was locked in prison for 12 years. He wrote the most read Christian book in history.Read their story
William Cowper1731 to 1800Olney, EnglandHe battled depression his whole life. He gave the church some of its greatest hymns.Read their story
Elisabeth Elliot1926 to 2015Ecuador, Amazon jungleHer husband was speared to death in the Amazon. She went back to live with his killers.Read their story
Amy Carmichael1867 to 1951Dohnavur, Tamil Nadu, IndiaShe went to India in 1895. She never came home.Read their story
Horatio Spafford1828 to 1888Chicago, USA and JerusalemHe wrote the most famous hymn in history from the spot where his daughters drowned.Read their story
George Muller1805 to 1898Bristol, EnglandHe fed 10,000 orphans. He never asked anyone for a penny.Read their story+The next voiceA new story every week
A new story every week
One life, every week. The next voice is already being written.